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Boom, Boom, Boom. At latitude 39° 12 min. north, longitude 15° 28 min. east, some 30 miles north of Stromboli and less than 360 miles southeast of Elba, the scene of the last Comet crash, a search plane sighted a spreading oil slick. Hours later a U.S. pilot radioed his base: "One after the other, boom, boom, boom, three bodies came up quick...
...crew threw a grappling hook at what looked like another body. It was a shark and two pilot fish. Five bodies were recovered, three men and two women, and doctors who examined them were struck by the similarity of their injuries to those suffered in the Comet disaster off Elba. There were no significant burn marks, no sign of oxygen lack. The faces showed no sign of fear: death had come too suddenly for that...
Half an hour later, an Italian fisherman cruising off the island of Elba (where Napoleon was once a prisoner) marked the Comet's presence in the sky overhead. "I heard a roar," he said, "very high. Then there was a series of blasts. The next thing I saw was a column of smoke plunging straight down into...
...British blockade, Herbert can hardly restrain a huzzah. Miraculous! he chortles. "The gods were on Napoleon's side." However, says Herbert, the decision to escape was by no means a pleasant one for Napoleon. The conqueror of Europe, Herbert assures his readers, wanted nothing but to make Elba "an island Athens," and "die peaceful and happy" there. "The charge is not that one man, through wild ambition, would not accept defeat. It is that the many, having no magnanimity, were unfit for victory." The book ends with Napoleon on his way to Waterloo, a battle Herbert clearly considers...
Delayed Reaction. In Van Nuys, Calif., Ironworker Elba Virgil Norton, 32, failed to convince police, who arrested him for drunken driving, when he insisted: "I am not drunk. I'm just still shaking from the earthquake...