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...snow thawed they had to be reburied over and over again. Group members became obsessed with locating their luggage and spent days and weeks probing for suitcases in waist-high snow. They snapped pictures of their predicament. Chunks of aluminum were fashioned into snowshoes; the plane's foam insulation was worked into sleeping bags. Snow was melted into drinking water on the sun-warmed fuselage; pieces of Alka-Seltzer were added to reduce cravings for salt. Talk increasingly centered on food and on great meals they had eaten. One day rummaging for usable debris the bearded survivors stumbled across...
...said that the vote on the first motion--to ask the University's permission to sell condoms in the Union--was about two-to-one against, with five directors abstaining. Cervilla noted that the vending machines will not contain vaginal foam...
...expressed personal objections to the whole scheme is Freshman Dean F. Skiddy Von Stade, and he has conscientiously kept his remarks on the unofficial level. Von Stade has apparently raised the issue of the moral implications of University complicity in condoms and foam and the resulting responsibility for widespread birth-control. Unfortunately, he has also kept his remarks on a level that is either spectacularly naive or downright insulting to the sexual predispositions of freshmen and freshwomen everywhere. "It might reinforce the idea that it isn't a bad thing." Von Stade told one reporter apparently referring first...
...served to panic the hijackers, who shot and wounded Copilot Billy H. Johnson. Taxiing on nothing but rims wrapped in tattered rubber, the veteran pilot, Captain William R. Haas, 39, miraculously got the plane off the ground. He was again ordered to Cuba, where he set down on a foam-covered runway at José Martí. Cuban authorities immediately confiscated the money and led the hijackers away. The passengers and crew were flown back to Miami. Their 29 hours of terror were ended...
...Hollywood, accompanied by his children and two other tourists, Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin and Mrs. Dobrynin. They trooped through the Universal Studio, and the children got autographs from Rock Hudson, Dean Martin and Dennis Weaver. Then Dobrynin tried a little acting of his own. He hoisted a huge foam-rubber rock high over his head and pretended to threaten Kissinger. "Throw it at me," Kissinger taunted. "You've always wanted to." Dobrynin smiled and put the prop down...