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...chaise longue, powered by a small gasoline engine and equipped with polystyrene foam pontoons, will carry a chap out to sea in semisubmerged comfort. Basic cost: $179.50 at Abercrombie & Fitch...
...crack open at the sides and sag to earth." Dozens of oil tanks on the city's outskirts burst into flame, sending up columns of choking black smoke 20,000 ft. high. The tanks burned for 96 hours, despite efforts by U.S. planes to smother the flames with foam bombs. A tidal wave hurled fishing boats far inland. A nearby island rose 9 ft. in a series of jolts, as if a giant were using a lever. Tunnels caved in; a train was buried beneath the collapse of an overpass...
...business. The rest includes such diverse items as disk brakes, moving sidewalks, even high-fashion boots. With Britons enjoying more leisure time than ever, Managing Director Reay Geddes, 52, is working to see that they spend it using Dunlop golf clubs, tennis rackets, fishing tackle-or latex foam mattresses. Tall, grey-eyed Geddes, who has roamed the world as a salesman, is also busily reorganizing his company. "We had become too big and too varied for a central form of management," says he. Geddes has given more autonomy to managers of Dunlop's 130 subsidiaries, spends much...
...been preserved; the mermaid would be recapitated within the week. Maybe. To earthlings who had come to love the Sea King's daughter, there was little comfort in the thought that welders could repair such wanton carnage. But, of course, The Mermaid is immortal, a creature of foam and sky. If tears were to be shed, they should be for the vandal-or, as Hans Andersen put it, for the "naughty child. And each tear adds a day to the time of our trial...
...Lookout was on the bridge--you would have been washed from the bow the way a seatainer trailor was washed from its lashings. Standing there and sighting along the ship, you felt yourself rise with a rumble over a wave, plunging down into the black night water. Then the foam broke over the bow and your eyes without moving your head were turned to those green and white fireworks in the sky. Up and down, black and light, for about a half hour; clinging to the rail. Life and art are supposed to imitate one another; I remember reading...