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...lift to the summit, got stranded near the top. Down below, unaware of his wife's predicament, Bill Scranton began searching in vain. At length, Mary and Coughlin came skiing down to the lodge. They had been stopped cold in the chair lift about 25 ft. above the terrain in a 40-m.p.h., - 10° F. wind. After half an hour, rescuers got them down by tying two ladders together and raising them to the chair. Deeply chilled, Mary Scranton gulped down hot coffee, went home, and returned to ski another...
...small private plane collided with a two-engine Scandia transport flown by Brazil's Vasp Airlines in the crowded air corridor between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. All 27 aboard both planes were killed, their bodies strewn along more than two miles of rugged mountain terrain. The smaller plane's pilot had strayed into a lane reserved for scheduled commercial airliners...
...Triumph of the injection-molder's art is Jimmy Jet, a dial-laden gadget that looks like a cross between a 1958 Pontiac dash board and the cockpit of the U-2-and is nearly as big. Activate its batteries and an aerial view of a terrain nicely dotted with factories, bridges and other targets moves across a simulated TV screen; a silhouette of a plane also appears, and by turning the controls this can be made to pass "over" a target. A lever launches missiles from the cowling. More dazzling than durable, it is sold in supermarkets exclusively...
Some of the shrewdest German buyers are flocking to the "Irish Riviera," as they call Eire's eastern counties, where farm land is almost one-fourth the price of comparable terrain in high-priced Germany. However, prices usually soar at the drop of a guttural. After failing to sell 67 rocky acres for $1,000 in 1959, a County Cork farmer recently unloaded 15 of them for $8,000. High prices and scarce land have also brought prosperity to con men. Last week on the Spanish coast, where in some places land has doubled in price...
...some extent the point where it approaches the ground. When it reaches about 48,000 ft the pilot will release a steerable paraglider. This final control is important because Gemini capsules will come down on land, not on the ocean, and the pilot will have to dodge unsuitable terrain...