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...enter gets smaller and smaller. There are only about 20 commercial harbors in the world deep enough to serve the Nisseki Maru, a new Japanese behemoth that stretches 1,139 ft. long, carries almost 3,000,000 bbl. of crude oil and draws 89 ft. of water. Such monster tankers -each representing a potentially catastrophic oil spill-pump their cargoes into oil depots at the deep ports. Then smaller vessels take the oil to final destinations along the coast...
THEY'RE back at the old game," a member of the United Nations Secretariat said bitterly last week. "Instead of looking for the most able man, they're looking for someone who has five legs and maybe a dozen arms. That kind of monster simply doesn't exist...
...around the 800-ft.-wide subterranean cavity created by the blast: 38 hours later, there was a last convulsive shudder as the cavity collapsed. But the danger of radioactive releases was apparently past. The radioactive material is virtually sealed in place by rock compacted by the pressure of the monster explosion...
...heard a zealot of our profession say that the appearance of this man meant a foreboding of ruin and an end to painting," complained Vincenzo Carducho, a Spanish connoisseur. "Did anyone ever paint, and with as much success, as this monster of genius and talent, almost without rules, without theory, without learning or meditation, simply by the power of his genius and the model in front of him which he copied so admirably?" The cause of alarm was an Italian painter named Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio who, in the course of a short, fiery and often pitiable career, changed...
...winning football team, and the fans will be out at Baker Stadium today to watch an exciting passing battle. They'll get it. But Penn has Shue to Clune, while the Lions offer Jackson to Parks to Jones to Sefcik, and the Quakers don't exactly have the monster front four to disrupt the aerial bombardment. Marinaro will win the Ivy title but lose the total offensive crown to Jackson. Columbia...