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...brief respite from a quarter century of Puritan austerity, the Class of '33 embarks today on a four-day 25th Reunion embellished with straw hats, class ties, plastic badges, and special parking privileges, courtesy of the Cambridge Police Department...
...lasting ill effects. For a trip to the moon, the Air Force thinks it now has an airtight zipper-type fastening for pressure suits that will enable the pilot to function like a duck hunter opening the flap on his long-Johns; the fecal matter will go into plastic bags, be deodorized and stowed unobtrusively...
...saturnine dandy with the "Florentine profile." Van Cliburn is a gangling (6 ft. 4 in., 165 Ibs.), snub-nosed, mop-haired boy out of Kilgore, as Texan as pecan pie. Instead of medals, he carried a well-thumbed Bible; instead of doeskin gloves, a single dress shirt, a plastic wing collar given to him by a friend, a ratty grey Shetland sweater that often showed under his dress jacket when he took his bows...
...pickle green, Davis did put Heinz's "57" into his work, in disguise. In the lower left portion there is a scrambled 1957, thus: 1922. This, says Davis, represents "the year it was painted, the year the building went up, and 57 Varieties." In place against its white plastic panel background, the mural is what Architect Bunshaft calls "a real head-snapper." Says pleased Preserver Heinz: "Exactly what we wanted. It gives vitality to the whole room...
...Horsepower. In San Diego, Used Car Dealer O. B. Davey sold a "show horse'' to Stephaniek Friedman (14), had to give back $2,363 after she complained in court that the horse had a lame foot, a plastic...