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...Exactly what went wrong may never be known. The plane's right wing glanced off the metal roof of McDonnell's Building 101-where the Gemini 9 capsule was being readied for shipment to Cape Kennedy later in the week. The plane bounced, hit the building again, then plummeted into a parking lot, bursting into flames. Bassett was decapitated. See was hurled through the shattered fuselage and killed instantly. Stafford and Cernan, unaware of the crash, touched down safely on a runway nearby...
...Batboom is V-RROOMing onto the retail stage just in the nick of time; after a $40 million splurge, the sale of James Bond 007 products is tailing off. Gimbels of Philadelphia, the first store to carry Batman T shirts, sold out its shipment of 360 in a day, ordered 2,400 more. Sales of all kinds of Batman merchandise would be still bigger except that manufacturers mistimed the impact, have fallen as far as six weeks behind in deliveries. "I've seen maybe 50 items in hand samples," complains Charles Lucas, Chicago-based buyer for 495 Walgreen drugstores...
This will not be easy. For one thing, the rice-eating people of Kerala stubbornly refuse to supplement their diet with other grain. Thus President Johnson's announcement last week authorizing shipment of 3,000,000 tons of wheat and maize to replenish India's depleted food supplies will be a boon to the nation, but will not necessarily keep the rioters off the streets in Kerala...
...conclusion that they contained nothing but creatine monohydrate, a common body chemical of no medicinal value. The stuff would cost 8? for the minuscule dose used, and Durovic's "not-for-profit" Krebiozen Research Foundation was getting a "contribution" of $9.50 for each shot. The FDA banned the shipment of Krebiozen in interstate commerce...
...CRIMSON received its annual shipment of fortune cookies from Sinkiang Province yesterday with a Happy Chanukah note attached. Sifting through the crumbs, the editors found these messages for the coming year...