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...became the first woman in space; and Major Andrian Grigorievich Nikolayev, 34, third Soviet cosmonaut; in a civil ceremony at Moscow's Wedding Palace, followed by a televised reception featuring songs, dances, a sit-down dinner for 300, and Nikita Khrushchev performing as father of both bride and groom, in which role he hoisted 21 toasts to the couple (sample: "May you have radar to avoid the griefs and obstacles of life...
...local authori ties. The team's first commander. Swedish Major General Carl von Horn, had hardly set up headquarters in the mud-walled capital of San'a when his horse, being led down a dusty street, kicked a Yemeni government official, resulting in the arrest of both groom and horse. U.N. planes are regularly fired on (none has been downed so far), and last month a Russian-made Egyptian Ilyushin jet bomber attacking Najran inside Saudi Arabia nearly scored a direct hit on a U.N. platoon. Getting into the act, the Russians have sent in at least...
...main ingredient of this formula is the rescue: one of the kids gets into some dire difficulty and is saved by the prospective groom. When Uncle Red Buttons brings over a lot of surplus weather balloons and rigs up a harness so the boys can try gravity-free "moon-walking," little Grover (Peter Robbins) breaks tether and is soon soaring over San Diego and out to sea. Instantly, much of Southern California is in a state of emergency. An aircraft carrier, a fire engine, a fleet of patrol boats, an LST, swarms of helicopters, jets and amphibian planes, an ambulance...
First Casualty. Soon, indeed, they have "snazzy" jobs and "spiffy" apartments. Kay is the first to acquire a husband, from whom she may confidently expect "vicarious success." The Group gathers at church to handicap the groom, said to be a genius in the theater. "Not bad," says Pokey, the society girl. Lakey knows better, and Lakey, as always, is right. Kay's husband has sexual shortcomings, and little success. Kay has a breakdown, is sort of tricked by her unsatisfactory consort into Payne Whitney, New York Hospital's great psychiatric clinic...
...boasted a clambake caterer in Maine, a salmon fisherman in Alaska, a supermarket meatcutter in Maine, a mosquito inspector in New Jersey, a Pinkerton detective in Indiana, a labor union organizer in New York City, a toll collector in Buffalo, a CIA courier in Washington, and a groom for a string of race horses traveling between Maine and Delaware...