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...phrase "Marxism-Leninism" as a criterion is an additional vice, according to Freund. "It is so vague as to be a cloud on legitimate economic and social beliefs. It has no relevance to a man's fitness...
...Devices for projecting propaganda messages on cloud banks...
Said a passenger afterwards: "It felt like a whip being snapped. Newspapers started flying all over the car. The next thing I remember, the car was over on its side. I saw bodies stuffed into the baggage racks." A great cloud of hissing steam, smoke, dust and soot smothered the wreckage. Inside, men and women screamed and struggled. "They were like a bunch of wild animals trying to get out of turned-over cages, clawing and punching each other to get clear," said one of the survivors shakily...
Airline Pilot Russell Bidulph, flying a C-47 from Port Moresby to Lae, looked down on Lamington. Said Bidulph later: "It seemed to cough, and in an instant there was a Bikini-like cloud above it." In a single blast the whole northern side of the peak had blown up. The black cloud, "full of streaks of red lightning," boiled up to 50,000 feet, mushroomed 100 miles wide. Not molten lava, but pumice dust and hot scoria (like clinkers from a furnace) flew out of the crater, making the earth for miles around too hot to live...
...level parts of the moon, for instance, are covered by a three-inch layer of dust tossed out of meteorite craters. Last year a cloud of yellow dust was seen for a few hours on Mars by Tsuneo Saheki. Struve thinks it was probably stirred up by a meteorite striking through the thin Martian atmosphere and shattering Martian rock...