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...molten mass continued to smolder. He also confirmed that the Soviets were tunneling beneath the reactor in an attempt to seal off the damaged unit from below with concrete, thus protecting the underlying ground and water table. Rosen called the effort the first step in a plan to "entomb" the entire reactor in concrete. He added that the No. 3 unit, which some Western officials had thought might also be on fire two weeks ago, had been damaged but that its cooling system was working...
Ridiculous it may be, but journalists often find it essential to let their sources say things privately that they would never say otherwise. Some of these sources may try to entomb sensitive information by using the off-the-record stratagem, but the presidential luncheon episode seems to prove, as Seymour Hersh says, that such things do have a way of getting...
...Bloody Nose. California has "a serious, progressively disastrous lack of coordinated land planning and development. In spite of all efforts to the contrary, California's unique bright land is increasingly defiled by badly located freeways and housing subdivisions and industries which needlessly destroy beautiful scenery and entomb agricultural land; by reservoirs and watercourses which unwittingly encourage the growth of mislocated communities; by waste products; by cars and jeeps and cycles which pre-empt our very living and breathing space. Already, the state's nose is bloody. How long before its whole magnificent body is beaten to deformity...
...been and still is a matter of opinion," writes British Author Charles Duff, "whether, if you wish to kill your undesirable, it is better to...flay him until he dies, or hurl him over a precipice; or burn him or drown or suffocate him; or entomb him alive...or asphyxiate him in a lethal chamber, or press him to death or cut off his head; or produce a sort of coma by means of an electric current... For my own part...I have reached the conclusion - that no people can point to a method which is more beautiful and expeditious...
...small (23,375 members) Free Church of Scotland. On the same day Dr. Baillie was installed, they held their own service in St. Columba's Church, seated as their Moderator Dr. David McKenzie. Said one of them: "We have come to praise the disruption fathers, not to entomb them anew under any rearrangement of admitted facts." By & large, the good folk of Edinburgh seemed somewhat indifferent to both installations. Some citizens even derided the ceremonial pomp of the larger group. John Knox, some felt sure, would have lambasted their ceremonial complacency just as roundly as he had denounced Queen...