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...encountered a mysterious docking problem. Five times he edged his spacecraft toward the lunar module, but Kitty Hawk's docking probe stubbornly refused to catch inside the funnelshaped receptacle atop Antares. Inexplicably, the probe's three spring-loaded latches, which worked flawlessly on previous missions, refused to grab...
...seem a mite slight to the pros. Far ahead of him were a dozen or more "sleepers"-little-known players from little-known schools that the scouts have been keeping a secret eye on. The St. Louis Cardinals bypassed several more-established stars to grab Norm Thompson as their first-round choice; a defensive back from Utah, Thompson is an aggressive ball hawk who intercepted seven passes last season. The New York Giants did likewise by plucking out another unsung Thompson, Ralph "Rocky" Thompson, a swift running back from West Texas State whom Giant Coach Alex Webster plans to turn...
...programs they punctuate. Trouble is, so many commercials are punctuating home-screen viewing these days that the messages blur into one another and are often lost. Now a Pittsburgh-based ad agency, Ketchum, MacLeod & Grove, thinks that it has found a way around the get-lost problem. To grab more attention for a bank in the Houston area, the agency is running the first commercials for commercials...
...Link. Dr. Arye Lev-Ran, who left Russia in 1967 and now lives in Israel, writes: "In buses and trains, and in queues outside stores, [the Soviet Jew] constantly hears the words zhid [yid] and A brashka [Abie], and overhears how crafty Jews grab up everything and are the cause of all shortages. There is probably not a single Jew in the Soviet Union who has not heard a drunkard voice his regret that Hitler did not finish off all the Jews...
...Starting in March, most of the Brooks shops will charge 1½% monthly interest on accounts that are unpaid for 30 days or more. Bergdorf Goodman will also begin putting charges on tardy accounts. Businesses of all kinds are now at taching brightly colored stickers to their bills to grab debtors' attention...