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Undisturbed by the mishap, Bill Taylor, Harshbarger, and quarterback Casgar began the fourth period by transporting the Crimson from its own 10 into scoring turf again. The key play of the series came when Casgar completed another spectacular pass, this time to Harshbarger standing on the UConn 8. The promising halfback crashed through moments later to end the episode...
Died. Earle Ensign Dickson, 68, longtime employee of New Jersey's Johnson & Johnson surgical supply company who, while treating his wife's finger for a kitchen knife mishap in 1920, inadvertently invented the Band-Aid, which eventually earned his firm $30 million in annual sales and Dickson a vice-presidency; after a long illness; in New Brunswick...
...despite her poverty slinks around in a little something by Maggy Rouff, run a truck full of beer through the West African bush. The plot grinds grimly from one boring breakdown to another-a roadblock, a snapped shaft, a flash flood-until the heroine, after fifty minutes of mishap, says, "Whew! I never thought we'd make it." They didn...
...date, only 40 Kenyan women have been graduated from the school. But all of these have surprised their husbands by giving a bona fide cocktail and dinner party, with hardly a mishap. Opposition Leader James Gichuru was so pleased with his wife's progress that he urged his friends to sign up, feels that the tuition is a small price to pay for so profound a domestic change. "There hasn't been a failure in the lot." says British School Supervisor Mary Suthrens, 48. "I believe any of our graduates could sit down to a state dinner with...
Horse-Collar Rescue. Whatever the cause of the mishap, the next few moments were hectic. One helicopter tried to snap up the Liberty Bell 7. The second could not come too close to pick up Grissom because of the rotor blast of the first. So Grissom swam 25 yards to a calmer spot, where the second helicopter lowered a "horse collar" and lifted him out of the water. Hurried back to the Randolph, he made his first remark seconds after stepping aboard: "Give me something to blow my nose. My head is full of sea water...