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Fifty years ago, this was one of my father's favorite magazines:  he was a do-it-yourselfer, who enjoyed puttering around in his workshop, with ideas he had picked up from the pages of such magazines as POPULAR SCIENCE, MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED, SCIENCE & MECHANICS, and so on.  I'm not sure what he'd have to say about this issue from over 20 years ago, though. . ..

Contents:

Letters (letters from readers)

125 Years Of POPULAR SCIENCE

What's New

Newsfronts:  Computers & Software

                     Science & Technology

                     Automotive

                     Home Technology

                     Electronics

                     

50 Years After ROSWELL -- by DAWN STOVER (Reflections on 50th anniversary of the 1947 crash of an UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT in ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO)

A Shock For Sharks -- by CHRIS O'MALLEY

Electric Tales -- by FRANK VIZARD (Computer chips in 21st Century book publishing)

Top Gun -- by BILL SWEETMAN (LOCKHEED-MARTIN F-22 FIGHTER JET)

Jazzy Quartet -- by DON SHERMAN (CHEVROLET CORVETTE & MERCEDES-BENZ SLK230 & BMW Z.3 2.8 & PORSCHE BOXSTER )

FYI

Looking Back

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