Wind Orders, Go Fly a Kite!
By Karen Lambert (Feature-Society Editor)
March roars in like a lion, or at least it's supposed to. March's blustery, generally irritating winds have loudly announced their entrance on Mount Oread. The roaring elements are providing an irresistible invitation to enjoy a traditional March sport, kite flying.
It's a truism that in order to fly a kite, one must have wind. Now that the elements are cooperating, it's possible to devote space to an article on the salubrious, aesthetic and pleasurable aspects of kite flying.
The sport connected with spring velocities is just plain fun. What other sport (except Kick the Can or a good game of marbles) can conjure up memories of a happy, carefree childhood when the world was rosy and life was just a bowl of cherries?
EVERYONE NEEDS TO let their hair down once in a while and forget about being mature college students. What better way to do it than guide a kite as it soars in loops and zags in a brisk breeze?
Is there anything more picturesque that a gay red kite floating against a
blue sky, with it's flowing tail twisting abandonedly in the wind?
And for auditory satisfaction, what more scintillating sound is there than the electric snaps and crackles of a kite being tossed in the breeze?
For physical exercise, kite flying demands a certain amount of stamina and it's great for building up leg and lung power. For the would-be track star, kite-flying offers all the exercise anyone in his right mind would want. Running up hill and down dale, over puddles and into trees, provides plenty of opportunity to exercise lungs and legs.
SO KITE FLYING sounds pretty appealing, doesn't it? Only one problem—putting the thing together so all these salubrious, aesthetic and pleasurable aspects can be enjoyed.
The best tactic in assembling kites is to adopt an attitude of prayerful resignation. Also allow about five hours for comprehension of the simple instructions, and maybe seven or eight to assemble the thing.
Actually, all that is necessary to assemble a kite is the educational background of a mechanical engineer and the patience of Job. (Ready-made kites are available on the market, but it just wouldn't do to fudge.)
IF YOU'RE LUCKY enough to come up with a ship shape kite, either through a miracle or several hours at hard labor, select an isolated spot on a hill and blast off. And if you're lucky enough to get it off the ground, forget all your lessons in manners, dignity and decorum and have a good time.
And don't pull a Ben Franklin stunt with the key and the lightning. It isn't written in history books, but he almost got electrocuted!
WASHINGTON—(UPI) —The Defense Department is working overtime to "scuttle and discredit" a billion-dollar military pay raise bill, according to the Armed Forces journal.
The independent service publication said Wednesday that "top Defense Department officials are working out details for a concerted drive in demolishing" the bill, proposed by Chairman L. Mendel Rivers, D-S.C., of the House Armed Services Committee.
Military Pay Increase Fought By Big Brass
It said the Pentagon favors a more moderate "skimmed-milk" increase.
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