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...renter may have to pay $240 for the whole set if one goblet breaks). The New York Circulating Library of Paintings rents out its collection of contemporary works (Brackman, Segovia Jr., Purdy, etc.) for as little as $8 a month. And anybody who has everything but the kitchen sink can get that at the Lee Sam Plumbing & Heating Supply Co. in Manhattan...
Terrible-eyed, a father rose up from his coffin one night last week, rushed after his beautiful young daughter and with bloodthirsty screams attempted to sink his fangs into her throat. Poor stiff. Some other vampire, succubus, lamia, boggart, barghest, uturuncu or related fee-faw-fum had already drunk the poor girl dry. The U.S., as summer moviegoers may have observed, is crawling with the bloody things. The horror industry is in the hideous throes of what may be the biggest necromantic revival since Count Dracula was a nipper...
...evident, Gus Grissom's flight [July 28] was a complete success in every aspect with the exception of the sinking of the capsule. In your issue concerning Alan Shepard's flight [May 12], you mentioned that "if the Freedom 7 should start to sink, frogmen would be ready to slip beneath it and inflate a raft to lift it to the surface...
...Pilot Lewis of the helicopter keep trying to lift the capsule for four or five minutes, until his engine was so hot that he had to let that valuable thing sink...
...upright position by the pull of a helicopter's cable. In this case its opening was disastrous. The sea was comparatively calm, but the Liberty Bell 7 was not built for seaworthiness with its hatch open. It wobbled, took in a surge of water and began to sink. Astronaut Grissom swam through the tepid water in his buoyant, silvery space suit, taking in great gulps of sea water dyed bright green to mark his landing. Though his remarks from the capsule at first led observers to believe that he had released the new-style hatch, Grissom later reported that...