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...Committee says, "In the event of being struck by an iceberg . . . the 'life' boats would certainly sink along with the ship." This is, of course, untrue. Fallout shelters outside the blast area would not be destroyed...
...event of being struck by an iceberg (we will never strike first) the "life" boats would certainly sink along with the ship...
...they do not sink, you will only be saved for a worse fate, inevitable death on the open...
...Caretaker (by Harold Pinter) ups curtain on a West London room that looks like the Pharaoh's tomb of a junkman. There are bales of yellowed newspapers, moldy tennis rackets, scattered bureau drawers, a sink bowl, and a disconnected gas stove graced with a gilt plaster Buddha. There is a lawn mower and a blowtorch. On a rope strung from the leaky roof hangs a paint bucket into which drops of water plunk like the tick-tock of doom. Into this dusty, chilly tomb, English Playwright Pinter deposits three mummies of modern man, who proceed to strip off each...
Nowhere but Space. Bowen believes that the dust collected by the U-2s at 70,000 ft. could have come from nowhere but space. During meteor showers, he feels sure, the smallest meteoric particles hit the atmosphere softly and sink slowly toward earth. Larger meteors burn up, their smoke-fine debris sinking with the rest. The particles take about 30 days to reach the lower atmosphere, where they then turn clouds into rain...