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...comfort upset honeymooners the staid National Geographic Society rushed out a Washington bulletin describing "the thundering crash of hard dolomite rock ... as a normal part of a continuing process." But the voice of calm soon fell on reddened ears. After a closer look at their instruments, Canisius seismologists blurted: "Only a brontide [a low muffled sound caused by feeble earth tremors]." After a closer look at the Falls, Niagara Park Superintendent Francis Seyfried found them undamaged. Said he: "We have checked with the Army engineers and examined pictures and surveys going back...
...rocky, racing Southwest Gander River, tumbled repeatedly into the icy waters. They hacked their way through tangled forest to reach the wreck. A faint cheer went up from the survivors. Eighteen of the 44 were alive, all but four of them badly injured. Twenty-four had died in the crash (two died later). It was the worst accident in transatlantic flying history...
Three days after the crash the first of the helicopters dropped down out of the sky. Even a helicopter could not land on the muskeg. While the helicopter hovered a Navy PBY dropped a load of planks. Then the helicopter fluttered down on an improvised platform. The survivors, in basket stretchers, were lashed to the undercarriage of the helicopters, flown to the PBYs waiting on. Wolf Lake. The PBYs flew them to the hospital in Gander...
...noon next day, some 80 hours after the crash, the survivors were all in the hospital. The dead were buried in the wilderness beside the wrecked plane...
...world's most musical lands. At that time, predominantly agrarian Bali (about half as large as Connecticut) had approximately 8,000 gamelans (native orchestras). More than 10% of the island's male citizens were musicians. Every night the little villages rang with the crash of cymbals and the brassy clang of gongs. (The five tones of the Balinese musical scale are represented by the syllables ding, dong, déng, doong and dang...