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...batteries. There was an explosion, perhaps caused by a spark that ignited trapped gases in the hull Before a single member of the crew could escape, the craft plummeted to the ocean floor about three miles below. But not to an unknown grave. U.S. Navy devices picked up the stricken submarine's last throes and were able to place the wreckage within a ten-mile-square area. The Soviet navy was not so fortunate. A Soviet task force searched for traces of its missing vessel far from the actual site. When the Soviets finally gave up looking, U.S. authorities...
...bound in leather and sealed in wax in the 41 volumes of Gladstone's diary, which his sons deposited with the Archbishop of Canterbury. The volumes, covering his life from 1840 to 1854, are now being published by Oxford University Press. They show that Gladstone was so guilt-stricken over what he regarded as shameful sexual thoughts that he frequently went home after his "rescue" meetings with prostitutes and whipped himself. Then he carefully noted the episodes of flagellation in his diary with a discreet little illustration of a stick with a thong, much like a Michelin Guide...
...been since Marco Polo's time the fabled island of Cipangu - an arrival no less deep in its implications than Commodore Perry's in Edo in 1853. The Met's show allows us to see, as never before, why our own cultural ancestors were so stricken with amazement...
That afternoon the stricken minister scrambled out of a helicopter in the hill town of Urbino to visit the site of the worst art theft since World War II. Between midnight and 2 in the morning of Feb. 6, three paintings had been taken from Urbino's 15th century Ducal Palace. One was a portrait of an unknown noblewoman, nicknamed The Mute, by Raphael. The other two were by Piero della Francesca: The Flagellation and the Madonna of Senigallia...
...Minister Harold Wilson to Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, when they met in the Kremlin last week. "Have you been resting?" Brezhnev brushed off the loaded question with a wave of the hand. "I'll explain about that later." As if to dispel reports that he had been stricken with pneumonia and a variety of other respiratory ailments, the Soviet leader nonchalantly lit a cigarette. "One of my faults," he conceded...