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Ringworm. In Toronto, Mildred Put-nik, 28, testified that when she returned her engagement ring to ex-Fiance James Kuca three days after he gave it to her, he made her pay $100 for depreciation...
...Nik" Khrushchev. The only possible contender for your title...
...letdown. Few of the 127 U.S. and foreign reporters who covered the launching gave any strong warning to editors and readers-as briefing officers warned them-that they were there for a test shoot, and that one of three missile tests turns out to be a flop-nik. With perhaps half a dozen exceptions, the press corps at Cape Canaveral had no grounding in the infinitely complex mechanics of missilery. In any event, since word of a scheduled firing spreads fast on the missile beat-postponement of last week's scheduled Atlas test was known to the press within...
...inscription for Friday's pfft-nik might be "Washington slipped here...
...Sights Dog. Headlines yelped such barbaric new words as pupnik and pooch-nik, sputpup and woofnik. Cartoonists filled outer space with gloomy GOPniks and gleeful Demo-niks, drew doghouses occupied by Marshal Zhukov and U.S. defense officials. Readers reported mysterious flying objects that the Fort Worth Star-Telegram promptly dubbed whatniks. Photographers posed Skye terriers and Airedales in front of telescopes, concocted such whatniks of their own as the Knoxville Journal's cut of a space platform with Rin Tin Tin in the driver's seat...