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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1975
Page
5
A guide to two simple homemade games for indoors. Up and Out uses a paper towel core and a marble shooter to score points by sinking the marble into numbered rings. Up the Mountain uses a pyramid box with trails and holes, flags, and numbered cards to reach the top first.
Moscow based Kzvestia reports Albert Naserov jailed after stealing a bus in Kalinin, 90 miles north of Moscow. He drove 1,300 miles to Tashkent charging passengers and produce, with the vehicle wrecked in a crash injuring two. He avoided police until returning home. The paper notes he was inspired by a streetcar hijack film.
In Seattle a film scene atop the Space Needle put a lead actor, playing a father enjoying the view, in a real medical scare when paramedics detected genuine heart rhythm abnormalities. The bout of bigeminy, brought on by cold, was treated with medication and he recovered without incident. Fire crews noted the moment: the actor isn’t acting it’s the real thing.
A spoof novel idea titled Lips envisions a sequel to Jaws with a kissing gourami causing terror at a Hollywood party estate. The plot follows Theda Grappling and others as underwater kisses spark chaos in Flicknagle’s pool, amid pool drains and impending Independence Day plans.
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