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...many a moon. Hotpoint was so eager to unload that it had set up carnival-like displays around the nation, was giving away cokes, ice cream and balloons to kids who brought their mothers to the fair (next week, the kids can trade their mothers for space helmets). Whirlpool has cut distributor prices 6% on some refrigerator models. General Electric has stripped trim off other models to sell them as cheaper "economy specials." The industry was hustling as quickly as it could to move its oversupply of goods...
Some 28 hours after it left Chile, one wave formed a giant whirlpool off the Philippine island of Canarimes and swallowed nine fishermen along with their boat. An hour later the long east coast of Japan, 10,000 miles from Chile, went under. Warned by a sudden onrush of the sea, the fishermen of the coastal town of Kiritappu raced for high ground, then turned to watch the waves fling their boats into the streets behind them. The waterfront of Hilo, Hawaii was erased by 35 ft. waves...
...intrepid explorers scramble down volcanic chimneys, bathe in a grotto lined with glittering quartzes, stagger through regions of miasmal fumes and luminous algae, survive an attack by giant lizards, sail on a raft across an underground sea, get wrecked in the whirlpool that spins around the planet's axis, stumble into sunken Atlantis, and finally are sucked into a volcanic vent and blown out the top of Mount Stromboli (altitude: 3,040 ft.) into the Tyrrhenian...
Scene of their exertions: the Golden Door, a sort of rich woman's Vic Tanny, which last week opened its $300-a-week rooms, whirlpool baths and scented steam chambers to men. All week, the youth seekers submitted to facials, manicures, pedicures, aromatic oilings, honey packs and pummeling by a benevolently mechanical Iron Maiden. Actor Jim (Mr. Magoo) Backus, 46, his intricate schedule pinned to his sweatshirt, worked up special enthusiasm for lip-stretching, wrinkle-reducing maneuvers that pulled his mouth from ear to ear. Actor and Health Faddist Robert Cummings, 50, gyrated in a wild tangle with...
Reports from the football practice fields and whirlpool baths yesterday indicated that, while many of the Crimson players injured in pre-season practice and in the UMass contest may not be ready to face Bucknell Saturday, most of them will be in shape for the important Cornell game two weeks away...