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MK's part of the Alcan project was originally conceived as a $100 million job, with MK's fee pegged at $2,200,000-subject to a 50% cut if costs went beyond a certain limit. Costs have soared, and M-K may make less than $1,000...
Panic & Delay. Long lines-some said the longest in memory-formed outside Commons hours before Sir Winston strode in, to answer a Laborite motion labeling the thermonuclear bomb a "grave threat to civilization" and seeking a Big Three meeting. Sensational left-wing papers fed the public outcry with near-hysterical...
H.M.S. Urania, a 1,710-ton World War II destroyer, lay at a Liverpool dock, undergoing conversion that would turn her into a fast, light, submarine-killing frigate. Her steel superstructures were being replaced with aluminum and she was being equipped with Britain's new, secret "Limbo" sub-finder...
In a modest grey clapboard house in Princeton, N.J., Physicist Albert Einstein was deluged with letters, wires and cables from all over the world, soberly deduced that the hubbub was stirred up by the passing of his 75th birthday.
In the crush, a few young men climbed up to overhead electric cables, which by some chance were not live, and swung dizzily along them to safety. But others of the frightened were ground relentlessly into one another, until clothes, then lives, fell away. Pilgrims only a few dozen yards...