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...neared Sola, the weather worsened. Fog shrouded the fjords and the airfield; a 70-m.p.h. wind and rain buffeted the plane, lashed the ocean below into scudding foam. The pilot. Captain Philip Watts, radioed Sola, reported. "I can't see a thing." and said that he would make an instrument letdown. He made one futile pass, headed back out to sea to start another approach. "Cleared to descend to 1,400 feet." advised the Sola tower. There was no reply. Next morning, after an all-night sea and air search, the fire-gutted wreckage of "Papa Mike" was found...
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (20th Century-Fox) rates poorly in science fiction's Foam-Rubber Monster and Magnified Chameleon category; its only people eaters are a shamefully lethargic giant squid, an octopus and a shark. The film's score in the End of Civilization As We Know It division is hardly more impressive; the Van Allen radiation belt catches fire, and the earth's temperature rises to a toasty 173°. Voyage, however, does creditably in Wires, Dials and Doodads; there is an atomic submarine almost as gorgeous as a producer's Cadillac...
Fancier Than Scarlett's. To go with the smashable fashions are numerous accessories, the newest and most practical using something called Curon, a thin, transparent, foam-plastic layer that is laminated to wool or worsted jersey as an interlining. Also among space-saving accessories: smashable turbans, many studded with creaseproof beads and fringe; wash-and-wear embroidered lingerie, fancier by far than Scarlett's; Italian nylon drip-dry raincoats, which actually may be more wrinkle than rainproof; tiny, collapsible umbrellas that look like pistols and shoot up almost as quickly...
...pool furniture, including an Aqua-Lounge ($29.95), constructed of aluminum tubing and saran webbing, an Aqua-Butler ($6.95 for set of two), Aqua-Table ($7.95), and a custom-made Aqua-Bar ($150 to $1,500 each). The Aqua-Butler is a 10-in. by 4-in. rectangle of plastic foam, which accommodates an ash tray and a drinking glass...
...word for a drunk in Japanese is tora-tiger. The police have been prohibited by the law from taming a tora unless he becomes overtly violent. Even then they could only politely take him into protective custody, put him in a paddy wagon whose walls were padded with foam rubber for his own protection, lock him up overnight, release him with a lecture in the morning. One remedial variation: tape-recording his drunken expostulations, then playing the tape back to his glowering wife when she came to pick up the limp tiger next...