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There is a theory, expounded by Joseph Conrad, that inside every man and woman lies a monster--a beast which is kept in check by the laws of society. This theory implies that if the monster is given a little encouragement, it will pop right up to the surface. Judging from my observation of audience behavior, Westward the Women appealed to the female monsters present...
Last year's bill produced a mass demonstration on the part of students from local colleges, including a delegation from the Commuters' Center. The demonstration was climaxed by a monster parade to the State House...
...experimenting with a long, platter-shaped submarine named Nautilus.* Jules Verne used the name for the spike-nosed boat commanded by Captain Nemo in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Over the years, two U.S. Navy subs have been christened Nautilus, and the best-remembered of them was the monster 3,000-ton boat of World War II fame. Launched in 1930, she was huge and .deadly, twice as big as ordinary fleet boats, with a pair of six-inch guns, two decks and six 21-inch torpedo tubes. Before she was scrapped because of old age in 1946, World...
Grey Path. Twice in recent years, Camiguin's biggest active volcano, a many-cratered, 5,620-ft. monster named Hibok-Hibok (Visayan for hot and bubbling), had gotten angry-once in 1948, again in 1950 when 68 islanders were killed. Always Hibok-Hibok gave warning-two or three days of ominous huffing & puffing that gave Camiguenos time to retreat to safer reaches of the island, or even to take boats to Mindanao, seven miles to the south...
...amazed. Monster layout with yards of track and trains. Little engine scooted by and puffed smoke in my face. Tooted whistle and disappeared into tunnel. Came out half a block away and dashed over bridge above the 20th Century Limited that was rounding the bend below. Signals blinked, tracks switched, water tower bubbled, and Limited pulled up to station. Little cart wheels out. On other track, 19th Century Limited whips by. Forgets to stop for log loader which spills logs onto track. Old 19th backs up. Little man at control panel in corner narrowly averts tragedy by switching Old 19th...