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MacStiofáin showed no signs of abandoning his fast. As the sentence was passed he aroused himself and pounded the railing of the dock. "I have taken no liquid and no food since my arrest. I'll see you in hell before I submit," he croaked at the judges. "I shall be dead within six days. Live with that...
Within five years, Luther was succeeded by Reo Fortune, a New Zealand psychologist. Mead met him on her way home from Samoa, and when the ship landed in England, was so deeply engrossed in talk with him that she did hot even see Luther waiting on the dock to greet her. Seven years later Reo was replaced by British Anthropologist Gregory Bateson under oddly similar circumstances. Emerging from a joint study trip to Kenakatem in New Guinea, Margaret and Reo joined Gregory in the nearby village of Kankanamun to compare notes for a few days. Though they had not previously...
...there. Langbein suggests that there are also other factors at work. Says he: "An Austrian or German was much more likely, by inadvertence or bad luck, to become a jailer than to be inside a concentration camp. The public reaction to the sight of a war criminal in the dock is therefore quite naturally one of 'There but for the grace...
...Exports worth millions of dollars a day to the country's fragile economy piled up on idle piers, while thousands of tons of Guernsey tomatoes, grapes from Cyprus and Australian apples rotted in the ships' holds or were destroyed. British housewives, who vividly remember the three-week dock strike of 1970, stocked up on meat, fresh fruits and vegetables. Cattle feed-lot operators worried that Britain had only a two-week supply of animal feed. Angry dock leaders predicted an "indefinite" strike, and it seemed possible that Prime Minister Edward Heath would have to call out troops...
...time with a minimum of manpower. Steel plates are delivered by sea from Nippon Kokan's Fukuyama steelworks 300 miles away and fed into a computer-controlled process in which they are marked, cut, shaped and welded into major hull blocks. Two giant cranes that straddle the building dock then lift these components into place, and they are welded to the hull-again mostly by an automatic process. Another labor-saving device is the yard's ingenious T-shaped production layout. This allows ships to be floated out of the yard at two points, instead of the normal...