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...life on a twelve-day, seven-stop journey from his homeland to the U.S.-without heat, seat, coffee, tea or milk. For the sake of what he called "the thrill" and at a cost of $325,000, Wagner made the trip strapped between the wings of a small, twin-engine plane, where he endured temperatures as low as 22° below zero. "I felt as though I was wearing a bathing suit," he said afterward. He was, in fact, clad in wool underwear, a frogman's suit, a ski suit, a leather suit, several wool sweaters and a motorcycle...
...even without Carson's patronage, Sagan's public star would surely have risen. Just before NASA sent off its twin Pioneers 10 and 11 to Saturn and Jupiter, he had persuaded the space agency to attach plaques identifying the ships' origins on the remote chance that they might be intercepted when they finally passed out of the solar system. The idea was a triumph over bureaucratic caution. The plaques, drawn by Linda, depicted nude male and female earthlings, and provoked worldwide comment...
BORN. To Joseph P. Kennedy II, 28, second of Robert F. Kennedy's eleven children, and his wife Sheila, 30, daughter of a Philadelphia banker: twin boys; in Boston. Names: Joseph Patrick III and Matthew Rauch...
...victory rates as particularly satisfying for the defense because the entire Harvard squad had dedicated the contest to two ex-defenders, whose careers were ended by injuries last season, Tony Cimmarusti and Jay Foley (Matt's twin brother...
...bliss was wet with her guilty tears. When she gave birth to Rossellini's child, Bergman became part of a warm and rackety Italian family, though nothing made up for the loss of young Pia, the daughter she had abandoned in Hollywood. She bore Rossellini a son and twin daughters. But the films she made with him were wretched stuff; both in art and life, the two were hopelessly mismatched. When he fell for another woman, Bergman was released from a marriage she could not desert...