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There's nothing like a few hours lying on a Florida pad to relax the old muscles. But this pad was at Cape Kennedy, and Astronauts Gus Grissom, 38, and Lieut. Commander John W. Young, 34, could be pardoned for feeling a mite tense. They were on their backs, 100 ft. up, in a sealed Gemini capsule atop a fully fueled Titan II rocket while launching personnel put the spacecraft through a mock countdown. And there they lay for 2 hr. 54 min., while the booster's second stage leaked fuel, a computer went haywire, and enough other...
Nanorchestes antarcticus, a species of pink mite discovered recently near the South Pole, needs no fur at all to keep warm. But Manhattan's Mary Sanford, wife of Socialite Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford, winters at Palm Beach, and Florida this year has been chilly enough to turn even the minks pink. "Your jacket seems to have picked up a glow from your ruby necklace," Laddie remarked brightly to his wife at Palm Beach's Poinciana Playhouse, whereupon he learned that his wife's genuinely rosy wrap was the harbinger of a new fad for pink mink. The skins...
...glad to know what's happening." Soon afterward, with the parliamentary pomp, the exhilaration and the confusion of the opening sessions over, Oklahoma's mite-sized (5 ft. 4 in.) Carl Albert was back on the House floor, ready for almost anything that might happen in the 89th Congress. Strolling among the desks, Albert sized up and greeted the neophytes. "Hi, how are you getting along?" he asked, extending his hand. "Come by and see me if I can help you in any way." One eager new comer asked when he could make a speech. Albert replied briskly...
...which is a mite embarrassing to Coach Arad McCutchan, 52. Arad is an odd name ("My great-grandfather picked it out of the Bible. It means 'a wild ass' "), and McCutchan is an odd coach. A balding, soft-spoken math teacher, he has a notion that the game ought to be played for fun. He wears flaming red socks ("for luck"), dresses the Purple Aces in bright orange road uniforms and warmup robes of yellow, red and green because "I like some color, and purple is hard to see." McCutchan limits his own recruiting to the environs...
Julie Harris plays a would-be actress who is too unnerved by auditions to try for any parts. Since her rent-controlled Manhattan apartment costs so little, she sublets it and lives off her tiny capitalistic mite. Her latest boarder (Lou Antonio) is a big Hollywood stag hiding out from his studio. He has been afflicted with a bad case of that integrity rash that Hollywood celestials periodically get from banking lots of money...