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...small planes and helicopters, which braved intense heat and volcanic ash to land at an airstrip only 200 yds. from the eruption. Within 3½ hours, everyone on Heimaey had been evacuated. About 200 police, firemen and rescue workers stayed behind to salvage what they could of Vestmannaey-jar, the island's only town and Iceland's most important fishing center. Miraculously, there were no casualties...
...General Foods has decided that what the U.S. needs is the company's new decaffeinated coffee, called Brim. In markets from Boston to Los Angeles, General Foods offered consumers a tempting introductory discount of $1 on each purchase of Brim, which regularly costs $2.09 for an eight-ounce jar. Television is Brimming with commercials. In one, a wife rations out her husband's coffee to spare him the effects of caffeine. He moans: "They can send a man to the moon, they can send rockets to Mars-why can't they make a cup of coffee...
...marred by blunders and bad breaks, had begun to get the scent, not of victory to be sure, but of some improvement. Small contributions were coming in at a brisk rate through the mails. There was something in the air that caused a middle-class homeowner in Burbank, a jar of olives in hand for his martini, not to close the door in the face of the earnest, shaggy McGovern canvassers but to wish them well. In Chicago's 47th ward, a housewife accepted a bumper sticker from a McGovernite. "I'm only a step ahead of poverty...
...broke his back-for the third time in his career. Determined to ride the next day, broken back and all, Knievel asked the doctor, "If I were to jump so I'd land on the balls of my feet, not on my behind, so I wouldn't jar anything -what do you think?" The doctor didn't think much of it, so Knievel set off for the track in an ambulance, just to make an appearance. Heckled into performing, he did a pair of "wheelies" -riding along for a hundred feet with the front wheel...
...picture of the anti-abortion assemblyman demonstrating his point to the New York state legislature by displaying a fetus in a jar was striking indeed. How righteously the antiabortionists would respond if someone presented on the house floor the preserved body of a young girl who had succumbed to sepsis from an abortion she could not obtain under sterile and controlled conditions...