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...storm clouds, but southern Britain was reasonably clear, and millions of Britons saw the partial eclipse. Most spectacular view of totality was from 21 Canberra jet bombers of the R.A.F., which flew so high (50,000 ft.) that the shadow looked like an oval black shape in the cloud deck far below...
Seagoing oil engineers believe that these "permanent" platforms can survive any hurricane that should be expected in the next 50 years, but they are dangerous to ..erect except in a glassy sea. The critical moment is when the heavy jacket is lifted from the deck of the barge and set upright in the sea. Even gentle waves can make it swing like a pendulum, tipping the barge, pulling the crane out of line, snapping thick steel cables. Sometimes an erecting barge has to wait for costly weeks before the sea is calm enough to risk a dash to the drilling...
...wins for the Communists. To neutralize the Red victory, Don Camillo challenges the mayor to an extra poker match, not in the tavern, of course, where it would be improper for a priest to loiter at cards, but across the tavern's windowsill. Peppone slips in a marked deck. But Don Camillo wins-by slipping in his own marked deck in place of Peppone...
...service of the King of Heaven, not of the kings of clubs and diamonds. You ought to be ashamed." "Lord, I know I'm in the wrong," confesses Don Camillo. His eye turns to the fireplace, where the last of Peppone's marked deck is beginning to burn. The priest sighs-but he sighs not so much for his wrongdoing as for the realization that now, as the flames spurt up, it is too late to learn how an expert like Peppone marks the kings and queens...
Reporter Russell was not impressed. "The Government appears to be helplessly drifting with the current of events," he wrote, "having neither bow nor stern, neither keel nor deck, neither rudder, compass, sails nor steam." In the seceding Southern states, where he was greeted as a friend and potential ally, Russell maintained strict impartially. On Morris Island, S.C., he was urged to drink to "something awful" for Lincoln and the North, but he sharply declined...