Cross Your Fingers
Well, today’s the day. If we get past it we’re in. Of course, no one is sure for what or for how long.
Today, according to Kenneth D. Wilkins of Manhattan Beach, a momentous event in world history will occur. He doesn’t know what.
Wilkins bases his theory on a careful study of the Great Pyramid in Egypt. Pyramidologists, he told reporter James Hubbart, believe the mathematics of its construction are too profound and precise to be coincidence.
They contend that such things as the length of the solar year in days and weeks, the earth’s solar diameter and distance from the sun and the equinoxes are built into the famous stone monument in Giza. They regard it as a “witness in stone” to man’s prophesied 6,000-year span on earth, ending, the way they figure it, Jan.28, 2001.
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APPLYING THE PYRAMID’S measurements to history, they claimed to have worked out dates coinciding with Biblical accounts of the exodus and flood and the dates of World War I.
Applying his own mathematical yardstick, Wilkins came up with the ominous date Nov. 19, 1959 — a little more than 40 years before 2001. His calculations are based on the symbolism contained in the enigmatic stone pile, and he concedes he could have made a mistake. Furthermore, the pyramid could be wrong. So be patient, everyone, we’ll just have to wait and see. ::
A TV NEWS cameraman on a roving assignment has solved the problem of handling his bulky equipment. He keeps it in a big, coffin-like crate. He’d packed his gear after a long, dull press conference the other day and as it was being moved out of a hotel Bill Stout of KNXT heard two reporters in his exchange: “Hey, maybe that’s the guest of honor in there.” “Naw, probably just his speech.” ::
DISILLUSIONED ::
to the rumor. Bob Manners says, that the eruption of the volcano Kilaeau Iki was rigged to coincide with publication of James Michener’s 950-page novel, “Hawaii” . . . By the way, the word “rigged” is getting such a workout lately that maybe some subcommittee will investigate three-masted schooners . . . In a recent talk UCLA librarian Larry Powell pointed out this paradox: the public library is one of the few remaining places where a person can be private. ::
ONLY IN L.A. — A man who patronizes a barber college, where the fee is 75 cents instead of $2, has been intrigued by the number of apprentices in their 40s. At his inquiry they all say the same thing. A barber can be independent. If he takes a job and doesn’t like it he can go elsewhere. At a recent shearing he got even more of a surprise. He heard one barber say jubilantly, “It’s up to $8!” Seems he recently came into some money and bought stock. Meanwhile, just in case, he’s learning the hair snipping business. ::
WHILE IN Honolulu recently, John Strauss took a lot of 8-mm movie film of the sights around Oahu, including the sunken battleship Arizona, and, after they were developed, had them run off on a projector and screen in Hawaiian Village. Unfortunately he’d neglected to mark the magazines and most of the films were double exposed, prompting a gal at the Village to remark, “My, my, first man I ever saw in the middle of Pearl Harbor!” ::
MISCELLANY- Double-feature marquee at the Hastings Theater in Pasadena: “It Started, With a Kiss” “But Not for Me” . . . Don Hoster’s Christmas cards are a piece of brown paper with the red imprint, “Season’s Greetings,” from an A & P store shopping bag.
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