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...twin-engined Cessna disintegrated in a yellow fireball. For a few seconds, the bigger plane looked like a wounded quail struggling for control. Then, still airborne, it too exploded, raining debris over a mile-and-a-half area near Hendersonville, N.C. "I could see bodies falling like confetti," said a witness. One crashed through the roof of a house. Another fell in a filling station, others on highways and trees. Miraculously, no one on the ground was injured. But all 82 people aboard the two planes died-including Navy Secretary-designate John McNaughton...
Miss Gill -- leader of the fight against Harvard's takeover of the building -- threatened to retaliate with "demonstrations, sit-ins, rent strikes, and Irish confetti (iron skillets)" in case of the following...
While her opponents danced in the streets of Bombay, threw confetti in Calcutta, and held victory parades in Madras, Indira Gandhi retreated into the seclusion of her modest New Delhi bungalow. There was ample reason for gloom. The Congress Party, which has ruled India for 20 years and won elections with clocklike regularity, suffered setbacks in India's fourth general elections that far exceeded even the most pessimistic predictions and imperiled Indira's chances of continuing as Prime Minister...
...theater really needs is a good new mystery thriller. Perhaps it does, but The Astrakhan Coat is not very good, only superficially new, and never particularly thrilling. Even avid whodunit fans must be a trifle bored by corpses in trunks, corpses that drop out of closets, and the confetti-like strewing of misleading clues. Coat also contains the customary complement of victims whose impenetrable innocence prevents them from knowing when or how to withdraw from transparently treacherous situations...
...President got the tonic he really needed in South Korea, where joun son means "good guest." At Seoul, more than 1,000,000 people -more than half of them schoolchildren-lined his 17-mile motorcade route, strewing it with thousands of chrysanthemums and a ton and a half of confetti. A forest of welcoming signs rose above their heads, many bearing bizarre, if well-intended, portraits of a green-faced, Oriental-eyed Lyndon Johnson with an outsized nose like Charles de Gaulle's. The slogans were on the inscrutable side. WELCOME TEXAS GRANDPA, said one. Another somewhat ambiguously proclaimed...