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...dryer. Hook one end of Aqua-Vac's 20-ft. vinyl tube to a special adapter on the faucet in the kitchen sink, turn on the water, and the cellulose sponge at the business end spreads water over the floor to make a lather with previously sprinkled scouring powder. When the swabbing is done, a twist of the faucet adapter turns Aqua-Vac into a siphon that slurps up the dirty water, empties it in the sink, leaving the floor clean and dry. Says Family Circle Magazine: "The greatest thing since sliced bread." Price...
After a quiet Christmas week at home in Arlington, Va., with his wife Anna and their children - John, 15, and Caroline, 13 - Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., 40, returned to the powder-blue crew quarters of Cape Canaveral's Hangar "S." There, one floor below in glassed-off splendor, glistened the Mercury capsule that at midmonth is scheduled to carry the lean Marine lieutenant colonel on three orbits of the earth. As the sobersided ex-test pilot buckled down to his monastic, preflight regimen, his wife and kids decided to wait it out in Virginia. Said Anna Glenn...
Back at the ranch in Texas, the Murchisons were tight-lipped-but keeping their powder dry. Scarcely had Kirby made his move when the Murchisons sold off to Dallas Millionaire Troy Post for $17.5 million almost all their holdings in Florida's Gulf Life Insurance Co. Immediately, the financial world buzzed with talk that the Murchisons expected Kirby to launch a new proxy war for control of Alleghany and that the brothers planned to use the Gulf Life proceeds to pay off the debts they had incurred in the first Alleghany battle so that they could negotiate new loans...
Outraged and embarrassed by the bombs, Osagyefo (the Redeemer) threw a number of his opponents into jail. Work crews feverishly tried to repair Nkrumah's bomb-blasted bronze statue in front of Parliament House. Supporters symbolically bandaged the statue's shattered feet, covered it with white powder, and threw a calico scarf over its right shoulder-Ghana's traditional symbol of victory. Others slaughtered a goat at the base of the statue to cleanse it of evil spirits...
During Nepal's eight-day festival of Indra-jatra, the Kumari works hard at the goddess trade-receiving the homage of King Mahendra, being toted through the city in a gilt-covered copper carriage drawn by 25 men, giving her worshipers tika (a dot of white powder on their foreheads), getting used to sitting quietly on her throne...