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...Williamsburg section, an American Cyanamid Co. tank truck backed up to the Radio Receptor Co.'s plant (which makes electronic equipment) to deliver 500 gallons of nitric acid. Driver Benjamin Sidla hooked up his hose to a pipe indicated by employees, started pumping. After a few minutes, a man rushed up from the basement, yelled to Sidla: "You'd better stop. The fumes are terrible down there." Somehow the nitric acid had been diverted into a 3,000-gallon tank containing hydrochloric. Result: royal water, which was already beginning to dissolve the tank's rubber lining, eating...
Student unrest grew until Saturday afternoon, when a crowd of more than 1500 Yalies converged on the annual St. Patrick's Day parade, throwing snowballs at marching policemen and interrupting the procession. A 60-man riot squad arrived on the scene, armed with billy-clubs, blackjacks, and a fire hose, which was eventually turned on Calhoun College to quiet rioters...
...test operations, the bureau used a light airplane to spot herring schools approaching the channel between Great Diamond and Peaks islands. When a school was sighted, the bureau's boats ran a 1,200-ft. length of perforated polyethylene pipe out into the channel. Air pumped into the hose by a compressor bubbled out through the holes. When the herring came to the white curtain, they turned aside, swam along it into the trap...
When firemen smashed through the Club's windows to admit hose lines students chanted "Hit 'em Again Harder" and expressed loud approval of the Fire Department's quick action. Blazing curtains and pieces of woodwork were hurled out the window, narrowly missing a parked car and once hitting a fire fighter directly on the head...
...where the garden is gravel and a robot polishes the floor. They try to get Hulot a job with the firm, they try to set him up with a neighbor widow, they try to reform him; they fail, of course. He makes sausages out of plastic hose at the plant, devastates their garden party, and transports their son on his fuming motorbike. The characters, in their smug posturings and ridiculous appearance, are like cartoon characters, as the film itself is a plotless continuity of cartoon-like situations. It is one of the funniest bunches of cartoons ever assembled...