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...greet the few Africans who had disregarded Mourning Day and had gone in to work for the white man as usual. Forming a human chain across the tracks, one gang stopped a commuter train, dragged off the dozen Africans aboard and kicked and beat them. Others used roadbed ballast stones to smash train windows, dragging one young African messenger off and amputating his hands with a broad-bladed knife...
When the sun set, the balloon cooled and dropped to 68,000 ft. Commander Ross dumped 300 lbs. of "sunset ballast" (mostly steel shot) to boost it up again. Though the gondola was insulated, it soon grew deathly cold. Both men shivered so hard that they literally shook the whole gondola. When Venus finally rose at 3:30 a.m., Moore started to turn the telescope toward it. But whenever the men moved, the gondola corkscrewed and rotated, vibrating all the time from their shivering. "It was very hard to point in a given direction," says Moore. "It showed that Newton...
Another mineral is a rich reality. In 1941 a trader picked up a big black stone to ballast his canoe on the Amapari River, later had it analyzed. It turned out to be 60% pure manganese, and today the mine is the Amazon's biggest enterprise, shipping out 75,000 tons a year...
...anchored at sea, and queried by radio for oceanographic and meteorological data. Other buoys sink to the bottom, where they can record currents, take pictures of their surroundings. They will be brought to the surface months later by a small charge of TNT exploded near by, which triggers their ballast-release mechanism...
...place on such a list would go to Author Condon's second novel, an almost complete catalogue of humanity's disorders, including incest, dope addiction, war, politics, brainwashing and multiple murder. The book carries a superstructure of plot that would capsize Hawaii, and badly insufficient philosophical ballast. Yet Condon distributes his sour, malicious humor with such vigor and impartiality that the novel is certain to be read and enjoyed...