Word: doomsday
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...space ship and rumors of an impending collision between the earth and Bellus, but the picture spends most of its time on a cold love triangle between a hot flyer, a hot woman scientist, and a drab doctor. Unfortunately the picture never shows how the world would act as Doomsday approached...
Sincere but Misguided. First he took up the charge that the U.S. had abandoned China to the Communists. "We can investigate the situation in China from now until doomsday, but the facts will always remain the same: China was taken over by the Communists because of the failure of the Nationalist government to mobilize ... to maintain its freedom. We gave [the Nationalists] more help than we gave Greece or Italy or Berlin. But ... the generals of ... China took our aid and surrendered." As for Korea: ". . . There was only one thing...
...long ago as the summer of 1946, plump, slick-pated Jerry E. Hauff, pastor of the Full Gospel Assemblies in Christ Inc. Church of Van Nuys, Calif., got the word that doomsday was approaching. "Voices from heaven" speaking incoherent foreign tongues had brought it to him. He translated for his congregation and reported that a great storm from the north was going to knock off all mankind-all, that is, who didn't sell their property and flee to the mountains...
...over huge posters bearing his picture. Piccadilly Circus becomes the desolate crossroads of a ghost city; Waterloo Station is an empty tomb except for confiscated pets and such prohibited excess baggage as trunks, tennis rackets and a sandwich man's sign ("The Wages of Sin Is Death"). On doomsday morning, from the city's rim, four army divisions move in for a house-to-house search...
Before another round had ended, the sentimentally pro-Louis crowd had the answer. The doomsday lefts & rights that won Joe the title from Braddock, and turned Max Schmeling and Max Baer to butter, were gone. For a dozen years Louis had been the best in the business, but the years had run out on him. At 218 Ibs., 17 over his prime weight, he was a paunchy shadow of the Brown Bomber. Charles spotted Louis 33^ Ibs., but he out-jabbed and outsmarted him almost...