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...Cards. Magnetized playing cards that stick to the surface of a magazine-sized magnetic playing board for games on trains, planes or outdoors were put on sale by Magnetic Cards of Calif., Inc., Santa Monica. Price: $9.95 for a 12½-by-12½| in. playing board and a deck of cards...
...midnight, her tiara sparkling in the blazing lights. Queen Elizabeth bade Chicago farewell. As sirens wailed and fireworks plumed above the lake, Queen and Prince boarded Britannia to sail on to Sault Ste. Marie and Port Arthur. In the harbor, a lone amateur trumpeter, on the deck of his cabin cruiser, touchingly sounded his own version of Pomp and Circumstance...
Astronomers, who consider the planets as prospective real estate for the space age, have longed for years to see Venus occult a bright star. But such events are extremely rare. Venus looks big because of sunlight reflecting brightly from its faintly yellow cloud deck; actually, to earth-bound observers its disk is never larger (usually much smaller) than a golf ball seen from a distance of 500 ft. As the tiny sphere creeps slowly across the star field, it occasionally covers a faint star, but not once since the invention of the telescope 350 years ago has it covered anything...
...Poop Deck. In Toronto, Clifford Nesbitt staggered while undergoing an intoxication test for drunken driving, won an acquittal when he explained: "I'm an ex-sailor. That's my swagger left over from naval days...
...coaching a month ago because of failing health and eyesight. But at the finish of the race last week, Rusty Callow could feel satisfied. His Navy crew, only a mediocre outfit this season but revamped for the I.R.A., made a gallant closing spurt, finished a strong third, just a deck length back of Syracuse...