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...looked around. It was Monday morning, January 27, 1969. Two days before, he had been taking an English exam; now he sat cross-legged on a soft brown rug in a small cabin called Firo, looking out over the Pacific Ocean. Two days before, 11 people had been killed by a mud-slide in Southern California, a result of the worst flooding in the state in 31 years; now it was bright and sunny, and far below the surf was pounding in against the shore...
Hitting the Seams. Who were the Jets trying to kid? Didn't they know that the youngsters in the A.F.L. were no match for the tough old pros in the N.F.L.? Hadn't they heard that the rug ged Baltimore defense, which held three teams scoreless in regular season play, made a specialty of manhandling up pity quarterbacks...
...stupid. Some Arabs are moderates as far as Israel is concerned, and would like to work out solutions at the conference table if Israel and their own people would permit. Others are militants and see no answer but the gun and the grenade. Israel's attack pulled the rug from under the moderates, whom they should aim to strengthen, and added tremendously to the backing of the militants...
...mention of a mother-live with their potty Grandpa (Lionel Jeffries) and a bunch of malfunctioning machines, ingeniously designed by Rowland Emett. Like the man who invented five-up and six-up and then gave up, Caractacus falls just short of greatness. His vacuum cleaner not only cleans the rug, it swallows it. His color television set just broadcasts wobbles. His Icarus act fizzles when the rockets tied to his back go off piecemeal and get pointed the wrong way, driving him only horizontally...
...heat-seeking weapon used by American planes in Viet Nam, the Sidewinder is about 9½ ft. long and weighs 165 Ibs. Undaunted, the trio trundled the missile to their car in a wheelbarrow, broke the car's rear window to fit the rocket in, wrapped a rug around its protruding end, and drove more than 100 miles across West Germany to an undisclosed city...