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Show It VHfflDtEnEtfnUIl t I A lift S vi sv , r vl iMJ i i' , w r si''.- ",;;. ' n V f , - ,' l5v ' ; . V. .1- - fiBfSrin-Jilil- . QIGliSjEGBCiD! (TOTESltSJfl -v J t .- i2f;gyfi;litgfi'i f tesfr- fas!. .? Wv r7 i3 I r r, -- - '. mp"? & Inventive punkin chunkers turn junk such as garage door springs, sailboat masts, and belts and pulleys into launching machines that practically defy the laws of gravity. Boom! Thwack! Cannons rumble, catapults strain and heave, and projectiles fly. As a round, orange object hurtles through the air and splatters in the distance, the crowd roars. This is no ragged band of medieval raiders Launching an attack on castle walls; its scores of contestants launching pumpkins yes, pumpkins over a Delaware field to see who can chunk theirs farthest. More than 80 teams and their massive homemade machines are to compete Nov in the Delaware P unkin Quinlan Associations 17th annual Punkin Qiunkin 3, contest in Millsboro, a town of 2,360, about 45 miles south of Dover. The competition pits teams of "chunkers and their machines from all over the United States against one another in such colorful categories as theatrical, Page 6 American Profile |