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Chief villain is the standard maniac in uniform-in this case a sensible-sounding but psychopathic U.S. Navy officer named James William Geraghty, commander of a nuclear submarine that is submerged under 50 ft. of polar ice when the big blowout comes on Christmas, 1965. When Geraghty finally surfaces, he finds himself on top: every higher-ranking officer is dead. After using machine guns to quell a rebellion by U.S. survivors who get it into their heads to elect a civilian government, he sets himself up as World Leader, or Commander-1. In his brave new science-fiction world...
...else again. For years, the Communists have emphasized this ideologically safer holiday while downgrading or disguising Christmas (which in the Russian calendar falls on Jan. 7). With beaming approval from the Krernlin, Moscow last week was feverishly preparing for the biggest, brassiest and most bountiful New Year's blowout in Communist history...
...rupture, he sprays the artery with a plastic mixture which gives it a dry, thin coating like Saran wrap. Then Dr. Selverstone sprays on a second coat, using a new, quick-setting epoxy resin. The double coat has the desired toughness. And more than 100 patients are living with blowout patches in their brains...
...paying $100,000 for the privilege of watching a handful of men in silk spin madly around a banked oval track, for prizes ranging from a few bottles of wine to a brand-new DKW sedan. To beleaguered Berliners, the Six Days serves as carnival, communal songfest and emotional blowout. Only a fraction of the crowd is made up of racing fans, and as one old man said of the event, "It would be great if it weren't for those cyclists...
...financial aid to Viet Nam's Special Forces a "betrayal." Arriving in Texas, she made a pilgrimage to Neiman-Marcus' famed department store in Dallas, lunched at the city's rooftop Ports O' Call Restaurant, and was guest of honor at a Texas-sized blowout at the Bee County ranch of Millionaire Dudley T. Dougherty, who keeps an oil well in his front yard...