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...were elderly Britishers off to enjoy Christmas in the sun; three honeymoon couples were on board, as well as schoolboys joining their parents in Madeira and a group of five London taxi drivers on holiday. On the first day at sea, Captain Mathios Zarbis, 53, ordered the only boat drill held during the cruise. Only the constant trouble with the Lakonia's electrical system gave reason to suspect trouble ahead...
...menfolk, watch a troop train roar through at top speed, leaving behind an acre or so of stunned faces that say all there is to say about war's anguish at home. And Chukhrai pumps irony into a sequence that has Sasha posing for a photographer beside her drill press. She is alone, an unwed mother, sick with despair, but the picture is published over the caption: "Sasha Lvova finds happiness in her factory. She has enlarged her quota 163%." Director Chukhrai seems fully aware that pravda is stranger than fiction...
Some of the survivors insisted that the rescuers continue boring exploratory shafts, using a smaller drill. Suddenly the skeptical rescue team was electrified by a series of raps on the drill bit. Over a quickly lowered phone line, word came that eleven men were alive in an abandoned gallery, 196 ft. below. Memorial services were canceled and the oil rig hurriedly recalled...
When a reservoir broke and flooded an iron mine near Lengede, Saxony, two weeks ago, 79 workers scrambled to safety, and ten more were rescued. The remaining 40, entombed without food for ten days, were given up for dead. The giant oil drill that had bored the rescue shafts for the others was dismantled and started on its way back to The Netherlands. The crowds of reporters and onlookers drifted away. All that remained was to hold a memorial service...
...investigation was launched to see if there had been negligence at the mine, and the East German radio even managed to find a propaganda issue-capitalist callousness. Meanwhile, the rescue work continued. The drill had to work slowly because of the danger of a cave-in, but eventually and luckily pierced the only spot in the gallery's roof that was solid rock. Just 103 hours after the eleven were heard from, the first of the miners emerged from the "rescue bomb," a sort of torpedo-shaped elevator that had been lowered into the new shaft with two volunteer...