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...Velikovsky account, Venus was once a monstrous comet. About 1500 B.C., it swept in from space surrounded by a retinue of meteors. On its first pass, it missed the earth by a comet's eyelash, showering the surface with "stones from the sky." Dreadful things happened, of course. The rivers ran red as blood. The oceans slopped around. Mountain ranges rose or fell, and lots of people were killed...
Right in the thick of things were the Children of Israel, who were trying to escape from persecutions in Egypt. On the night of the Passover, the Lord (acting through the invading comet) shattered Egyptian temples by stirring up earthquakes. When the fleeing Children of Israel reached the Red Sea, Velikovsky points out, the comet was very close, tearing the sea apart. A gigantic electric spark passed between it and the earth, and "pushed down the mile-high billows...
...wire-haired Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden ran for governor of Florida and got married for the third time at 79, celebrated his 81st birthday last August by making his first parachute jump. Last week Publisher Macfadden flickered dimly in the publishing sky in which he once flared like a comet...
...Comet, said De Havilland, has a gross weight of 105,000 lbs., a cruising speed of 490 m.p.h., and a practical commercial range of 2,645 miles, with a payload of 12,000 lbs., including 36 passengers and their baggage. A 50-mile headwind, which is often met on east-west transatlantic hops, would cut the range to 2,140 miles...
...Havilland's figures knocked the props from under London newspaper predictions of nonstop London-New York schedules of six hours. Until its range was improved, the Comet would not be able to make nonstop London-New York flights at all. De Havilland itself estimated that it would take twelve hours for the trip, counting refueling time at Prestwick and Gander. Lockheed's 43-passenger Constellation now makes...