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This is Thorp's basic strategy; his full-dress system involves a much more complex technique of betting in terms of the number of tens, aces and fives remaining in the deck in relation to the number of cards left in the pack before the next shuffle...
...Mont Blanc was only a 3,000-tonner, but its cargo was something more than mere ammunition. Every usable square foot of cargo space was crammed with raw explosives-200 tons of TNT and 2,300 tons of lyddite, which is more powerful than TNT. On deck, reeking like an Esso station, were 35 tons of benzole in drums stacked three high...
...Halifax Narrows that morning. The two ships went into a clumsy dance like people trying to pass on a sidewalk. When they ultimately collided, the Norwegian ship gashed the bows of the Mont Blanc and broke open some of the benzole drums. The fluid ran out over the deck and poured down into the hold. The Norwegian ship disengaged, and, as steel scraped steel, sparks ignited the benzole. The Mont Blanc blazed fire for a full 25 minutes before the explosion. The French crew abandoned ship. The Mont Blanc drifted across the harbor, nuzzled against a pier and set fire...
Tragic Anecdotes. The explosion shot a half-ton piece of the Mont Blanc's anchor two miles through the air. It pulled a sailor off the deck of a nearby merchantman, and tossed him up to the top of a hill half a mile away. Somehow he lived. It tore rocks up from the bottom of the harbor and sent them raining from on high. It sucked up so much water that divers working 22 ft. down elsewhere in the harbor suddenly found themselves standing chest-deep and wallowing for their lives before the onrush of a tidal wave...
...size as the earth, is probably made of much the same material, and it may have a shrinking liquid core. As man's space probes continue to study the distant planet, they may discover that it has a pattern of wrinkled, earth-type mountains hidden under its cloud deck...