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...faint, clutched at his throat and fell forward on the table. An ambulance was summoned and Farouk was placed in an oxygen tent at the hospital. Minutes later he was dead, apparently of a heart attack. Found on Farouk's body were a gold wedding ring, a cigarette lighter, a watch, a pill box initialed 'F,' a pair of dark glasses, a loaded Beretta automatic, identity pa pers, and a billfold containing $115 in Italian lire and $2,500 in U.S. bills...
...space-suit plans call for exchangeable equipment: a massive propulsive backpack for use in weightless space, and lighter suits emphasizing oxygen and cooling apparatus for exploring the moon. These suits have not reached the rigorous testing stage, in which men will wear them in a vacuum chamber under the glare of simulated space radiation. Less ambitious suits for emerging from Gemini capsules are farther advanced. Like the suit worn by Leonov. they will carry their own oxygen and cooling equipment and also trail an umbilical cord as an extra safety measure. They are designed to support life in a vacuum...
...Russians got shook up and excited," he recalled. "They gave me $1,000 and told me to buy a short-wave radio and tune in on a special part of the band and listen for the code words 'Amour Lenin.' " The Reds gave him a cigarette lighter decorated with four aces and told him a Soviet agent with an identical lighter would meet him in front of a movie theater in Smiths Falls, Ont., 1,650 miles away, to which Thompson was to travel on certain Sundays. The agent would ask, "Are you from Toledo?" and Thompson would...
...until after Christmas that the two heaviest freshman wrestlers, Bill Malugen and Dave Goins, joined the team. Before that time, the heavyweight and 191-pound positions were filled by lighter wrestlers, which forced nearly every team member to compete one and sometimes two classes above his own weight...
...Seagram & Sons. At his order, it will soon bring out not only bottled cocktails, but also ten other new drinks in the most ambitious marketing program ever undertaken by any distiller. As the first step in that program, he jetted last week to Los Angeles to introduce a lighter blend of Four Roses in a bottle shaped like a fat paddle...