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...philosophy about what he is doing," says the Air Force's Colonel Keith Lindell, one of the astronauts' training officers, "and there's more to it than personal glory. This is not a grab-the-brass-ring...
Guinness itself is a superlative, the world's greatest grab bag of mosts, leasts, longests, shortests, fattests, thinnests, highests, lowests, fastests and slowests-20,000 records in all. Its students can learn that the creature with the most sensitive sniffer is the male silkworm moth, which can detect a female two miles away; that the longest place name belongs to the New Zealand village of Taumatawhakatangihangakoauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu; and that Mrs. Beverly Nina Avery, a Los Angeles barmaid, holds the record for most spouses in a monogamous society, with 14 husbands, five of whom, she once alleged, broke her nose...
...Columbia). 'Tis a dark and stormy night. Shouts and shots are heard. Four Yanks jump the wall of a Confederate stockade, grab a Rebel hostage and pile into the basket of an observation balloon. Whack! They cut loose. The balloon soars. "We made it! We made it!" The storm screams derision. Four days and 7,000 miles later, it hurls the fugitives into the sea and onto the beach of an island somewhere in the South Pacific...
...cover on Vogue to a back page in a mail-order catalogue. Few of her breed are known by name except in the fashion world they rule and serve, and most of those so blessed (Grace Kelly, Suzy Parker, Jane Fonda and, this year, Pamela Tiffin) are quick to grab their identity and take it to Hollywood to see it in neon...
...concentrate on the 2.3% unemployment rate which, though falling, is about twice the usual figure for Australia. Labor Party Candidate Arthur A. Calwell, 65, grandson of a U.S. gold prospector who left for Down Under in the gold rush of the 1850s, emphasized the unemployment issue, promised a grab bag full of state-paid welfare plans ranging from higher pensions to free public hospitals...