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...with mustaches and calloused hands fill the bar at midday. They are hard-swearing and careful to open the door for the occasional entering woman. Colored Christmas lights deck the smoky ceiling of the bar, and someone has carved "Free Ireland" into the wooden counter...
...last night. Most of the 600 people aboard the ferry were asleep and heard no warning alarms when the accident occurred. Ships in the area picked up 451 people from the sea; the rescue effort and investigation continue. The collision left a three foot hole in the lower deck of the ferry. Many of the dead were women and children found inside cabins. The accident occurred the day the ferry company went public.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
...moment, the deck is stacked against Roosevelt, though; the latest Boston Globe/WBZ poll shows Weld leading in the race, 62 to 26 percent...
Maritime officials suspect that some flaw in the Estonia's forward loading door -- or human error -- led to the flooding of the car deck. Information indicates that the outer bow door had jarred loose and may even have ripped off completely. "There are several eyewitnesses who say the bow door was missing when the ferry went down," said Bengt Erik Stenmark, Sweden's maritime safety director. Investigations into the disaster could result in demands for changes to the roughly 4,500 similar ships in operation worldwide. Some specialists advocate installing dividers in the car decks to check the force...
...drop in" on celebrities in Person to Person. Manipulating quiz shows to affect the outcome was hardly new -- or surprising. Two years before Van Doren admitted his sins, Time ran a story that began, "Are the quiz shows rigged?" and went on to detail ways producers stacked the deck in favor of certain players, like posing questions in a contestant's strongest area of knowledge. Fooling the public is a venerable show-biz tradition; the quiz-show producers found out, to their dismay, just how much fooling the public was willing to accept...