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...appreciates spinsterish efficiency in the office, he turns for amour to a Greenwich Village post-adolescent (Brenda Vaccaro). This child wants to be a bride, but the dentist has lied to her that he has a wife and three children. In distress, the girl turns on the gas oven, and the suicide attempt, foiled by a friendly neighbor (Burt Brincker-hoff), convinces the dentist that he has been hit by a depth charge of love...
...what is allowed in clean rooms. At the same time, all of Voyager's exposed surfaces will be decontaminated with ethylene oxide, a colorless gas that is deadly to microorganisms. Finally, the spacecraft will be placed in an airtight, teacup-shaped canister and baked in a giant oven for as long as 53 hours at a temperature of 257° F.-enough heat exposure to kill even the organisms that live within the solid metals and other materials used in spacecraft construction...
...within three feet. Before the year is out, the company plans to offer a second model that will respond only to the phone and only after 15 full phone rings. That will enable the housewife to call and start the air conditioner or the electric heater or the oven...
...prize for being the most valuable player in the World Series, Koufax called up a friend and sighed: "It's a toy-but what the hell." He is rarely seen in the Sunset Strip nightspots, hates the telephone so much that he used to hide it in the oven He even refuses to hire an answering service because that would mean calling back. "If it's important," shrugs Sandy, "they'll send a letter...
...magic potions, a séance, rattling skeletons, a furry sorcerer and assorted gnomes to contend with. Even Faustus and Mephistopheles, coming on like a netherworld Frick & Frack, get into the act. Mephistopheles produces a bouquet of flowers out of the air, and pops a little boy into the oven. Sighs Faustus: "Don't you ever get weary of the same old tricks?" Renata does. Having flogged herself with a whip, she enters a nunnery to repent by singing again on her stomach. The saga ends with the nuns staging an orgy with imaginary demons and Renata condemned...