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Just yesterday I saw Grace herself at the lifeboat drill. There were 250 of us in her boat which has a capacity of 150. Isn't that just cuddlesome...
...surging thousands with scarcely a hundred actors. To do this, he used 40 sets jammed into NBC's Brooklyn studio, making masterful use of his six cameras to combine action and symbolism; e.g., a rope spinning over a bitt was enough to suggest the lowering of a lifeboat. Seven sets-decks, staterooms, etc.-were built in duplicate, one set being shown "dry" for early scenes, the second set built to hold three feet of water for the sinking scenes...
...sides for as long as they were able before the seas washed them away." Why, then, was her compass missing? And her log book? One diehard romanticist persisted in the belief that Dusty Miller had kidnaped his entire ship's company and whisked them away by lifeboat and raft to a desert island to live forever after, free of the perils of divorce courts and bill collectors...
...earned the title when she survived the Titanic sinking and even lent a hand at the lifeboat oars...
...Scramble. Mutiny, once started, is infectious. Like survivors in a leaky lifeboat, everyone suddenly wanted to share in the scramble for control. The Cao Dai, Hoa Hao and Binh Xuyen sects, who together control 40,000 soldiers, withdrew their support from Premier Diem, rallied to Hinh's side and demanded representation in Diem's government. At week's end Diem was still in the palace guarded by his partisans; Hinh was at his headquarters, guarded by his tanks. Diem denounced Hinh as a rebel. Hinh answered: "All we have left is a choice between two solutions...