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After ham and eggs one night last week, Air Force Captain Joe Kittinger, 31, drove up to a 2 a.m. rendezvous in the clear, cold New Mexico desert and methodically climbed into one of the strangest costumes ever worn by man. First he put on two suits of insulated, porous underwear, then a partial-pressure suit, heavy, quilted long underwear, standard Air Force flying suit, heavy G.I. socks, electrically heated socks, heavy woolen socks, rubberized boots (called Li'l Abners), nylon gloves, high-altitude pressure gloves, electrically heated flying gloves, glass-faced space helmet...
Jouncing their baby buggies as they commiserated, two Brooklyn housewives last week clucked bitterly over the news of a growing scandal in which they-and uncounted thousands like them-were the victims. Implicated in the first week's disclosures by New York's Commissioner of Investigation Louis Kaplan were at least 100 butchers, a union president, the city's director of the Bureau of Weights and Measures, and a bureau inspector. The crime: extortion of hush money from butchers who cheated their customers...
...from hope into brick. His wife Bonnie was active in the Methodist Women's Society of Christian Service. The Clutters' well-behaved, teen-age children, Kenyon and Nancy, were popular, straight-A students at the local high school. Both were scheduled to receive 4-H awards at last week's Finney County 4-H Achievement Banquet...
...Every Sunday the Clutters took two neighboring farmers' teenage daughters to the Methodist Church in Garden City, seven miles from the Clutter farm. When the two girls knocked on the door of the Clutter house on Sunday morning last week, nobody answered. The only explanation they could think of seemed comically out of character: the normally early-rising Clutters had overslept. Finding the door open, the two girls went inside, ambled upstairs to wake Nancy. At the top of the stairs, they froze: Nancy was lying on her bed, her hands tied behind her back, her face mangled...
POLITICAL NOTES Poll Vaulting On his swing through Oregon, Presidential Hopeful Nelson Rockefeller sprayed just a whiff of doubt that Vice President Richard Nixon could win enough independent and Democratic votes to win the presidential election (TIME, Nov. 23). Last week, in a visit to Rhode Island, he conceded that Nixon "probably" could win the election if it were held today. But, he added, "we can't foresee now what the circumstances will be a year from...