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...very civilized, but if there were a way to bottle up the electricity in that little room it would run the Ford industries for a solid year. Then we exit, rapidly, and go back to the theater and, I must say, that Tom Jones is a whale of a picture...
...Blowing Whale. The heavy lower point, Adams explains, will be attached in such a way that the pressure or temperature at a predetermined depth will release it. Freed from this ballast, the needle will be lighter than molten rock, and it will float instead of sinking. At last it will surface like a blowing whale, bringing with it samples of deep-down lava that have forced their way into depressions in its shell...
...drowns in a few minutes more. But they also knew that any one of several diving birds (loons, grebes, cormorants and "sea ducks") can endure immersion for more than ten minutes. The warmblooded seal can endure under water for more than 20 minutes, and the equally warm-blooded whale can last for an hour, perhaps even two. Scholander's odd experiments were carefully designed to discover how the aquatic animals survive...
...that was her public trademark, made as much copy out of her unsexiness as Zsa Zsa Gabor makes out of her libido. "Crawling out of bed, I girdled myself," she would write, "with the aid of a block and tackle." Or, "I've been favorably compared to a whale, a pachyderm, a hippopotamus, an untidy featherbed, an Eskimo igloo during the summer thaw, a charwoman at daybreak. Prince Christian of Hesse, spotting me in bathing costume offshore at Antibes, mistook me for a rubber mattress. But I became a celebrity anyhow...
Whatever its political implications, Big Lift was undeniably one whale of a show. No fewer than 30 airbases in the U.S., Canada, Bermuda, the Azores, Scotland, England, France and Germany were involved. Two-fifths of the total MATS fleet was mobilized. To support the 2nd Armored, some 1,600 artillerymen and truck drivers from places like Fort Sill, Okla., and Fort Bragg, N.C., were brought into the picture. From Dow and Loring Air Force bases in Maine, 119 supersonic fighters and reconnaissance planes flew to bases in France as a strike force assigned to fly cover missions for the tankers...