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...that the Navy wants the R.L.S. back. It was trying its best to sink her when she escaped. A superannuated World War II Liberty ship taken from the mothball fleet, she had been ballasted with concrete and topped off with a cargo of 2,000 tons of overage torpedo warheads, mines and other obsolete ammunition, becoming in effect a floating bomb. Then she was fitted with six Sofar charges with hydrostatic fuses set to shiver her bulkheads automatically under the pressure of 4,000 ft. of water. One purpose of the planned undersea blast was to help the Pentagon...
...kills her-a murder quickly discovered by his parents. Because he is their son, the couple cannot and will not turn the murderer in. In stead, the old man beats the boy remorselessly-and then that night helps row the corpse to the middle of a lake and sink it to the bottom...
...Beetle in Germany. That NSU has survived the crush of the giants at all is a triumph. Its sales grew from $10 million in 1958 to $120 million last year, and almost all profits were poured back into the company. Now, says Von Heydekampf, "If the RO 80 sinks, we sink with...
...host, the guests loosen their jackets, gowns and coiffures and abruptly bivouac on the floor. The next morning they discover that somehow they cannot leave the room. Days go by. Their amusement becomes annoyance, then terror. Like miners entombed in a cave-in, they first cry out, then slowly sink into apathy. An old man dies; a young couple commit suicide. Occasionally someone screams to break the clamorous silence...
...ushering forth a complex metaphor to rank with Dylan's best. "Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire/ And though the holes were rather small/ They had to count them all..."--this refers to Scotland Yard's search for bodies buried in a moor. The method they used was to sink poles in the earth and sniff the ends for the odor of decomposing flesh. "Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall," the song continues. I.E., now they know that an audience, like the audience on the record, is so many dead, empty, hollow, units...