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...Eliot House Senior Common Room was damaged Sunday night by steam escaping from a broken radiator. The steam damaged several valuable paintings and antiques in the room before Building and Grounds officials discovered the leak...
Once attached, the new engines brought another serious difficulty. As the turbines thrust forward in flight, the rear casing was bent one-twentieth of an inch out of shape, letting jet gases leak around the turbine. Result...
Hickel's bad news came from California's Santa Barbara Channel, the scene of last January's big oil leak. Once again, a thick black tide from the same Union Oil Co. well oozed offshore over a 20-mile area, fouling beaches and harming marine creatures. Company officials and the U.S. Geological Survey maintain that the new leak was caused by a buildup of pressure in the oil dome. The solution to the problem seems to be to keep pumping oil so that the pressure does not reach the rupture point. But even normal operation...
About an hour after we left the curio shop the car began to get hot and sputter. The girl repeated her dislike for it. It finally died in the middle of the desert. The upper radioator hose had a leak and the car wanted water. I flagged down a diesel driver who took me about fifteen miles to the next gas station. I bought some electrician's tape and a waterbag which I filled. After waiting quite a while. I got a ride back to the car, fixed the hose, and refilled the radiator. The car started again...
...assassins as a truck simultaneously brushes past him. Three days later, without regaining consciousness, he dies. Officials immediately offer smug condolences about the "regrettable traffic accident." But a few bits of offal stick to the whitewash. A journalist coaxes a witness into a confession; an alibi springs an irreparable leak. The incorruptible public prosecutor (Jean-Louis Trintignant) remains unswayed by police and government threats. Ascending clues like the rungs of a ladder, he finally commands a chilling view of the assassination: Greece is a sunstruck nightmare, its police and army officers crypto-fas-cists, its government a palace of corruption...