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...Work, Work, Work." Careerman Bob Murphy fell into the Foreign Service almost by accident. Born in Milwaukee on Oct. 28, 1894, he was the only son of an Irish-American steam fitter on the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad. He worked his way through school, held dozens of odd jobs, e.g., selling the Milwaukee Journal. By 1916 he had managed to get into Washington's George Washington University Law School. There, an old foot injury kept him out of World War I military service-so he applied for a civilian war job and wound up as a clerk...
They'd Rather Die. Explanation quickly returned the White House pressure gauge to normal, but the Senate was already under full steam. Georgia's Richard Russell, whose prestige as chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee had suffered during the battle for a Pentagon reorganization bill (TIME, July 28), saw a chance to regain ground. Russell introduced a rider to an appropriations bill that would forbid the Administration the right to undertake any study of surrender. U.S. citizens, cried Dick Russell, "would prefer to die on their feet in the event of a nuclear holocaust than...
Part of the water in the steam, says McCabe, is "juvenile water" which comes out of the magma or the rock around it. The rest is rain water that seeps into the ground and turns to steam when it reaches hot rock. The steam contains less than 1% of noncondensable gases, mostly carbon dioxide, and no corrosive minerals. For the time being, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. will be content with a 12,500-kw. generator, but much more steam may be available. Wells drilled 30 years ago and abandoned as uneconomic have been spouting steam ever since with no loss...
...begins the prologue to American International Pictures' The Screaming Skull-a sample of just the sort of thoughtful, steam-heated promotion that sucks the bloodthirsty into U.S. movie houses. Pushers of cinemonsters know that one ghoul is about as good as another, and so the proceeds of horror films must depend on eerie drumbeating...
There was no such next time, and young Bisset graduated from sail to steam, eventually (1944) became the gold-encrusted commodore of the Cunard-White Star Line and successively master of the world's greatest sea queens, Mary and Elizabeth. Now 75 and living in well-fed Australian retirement, Sir James Gordon Partridge Bisset sits in the lee of the longboat and spins a salty yarn of life in an oldtime square-rigger. On his first voyage, Bisset was seasick. The mate gave him an old-fashioned cure: a pannikin of sea water poured down his protesting gullet. Though...