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...poured all the beer consumed at last year's Head into the Atlantic Ocean, sloshed fish would have floated to the surface wearing lampshades and singing "Great Balls o' Fire...
...Dowling tells it, the committee worked through the summer, and toward the fall, and a rumor was leaked that Murdock was the committee's first choice. Naturally, both The Boston Herald and The Boston Globe went after the story, and sent their photographers to New York to meet the ocean liner on which the Murdocks were reportedly returning from Europe...
...pact, which will make a surprise attack by either camp virtually impossible, limits NATO and the Warsaw Pact to a total of 20,000 tanks, 30,000 armored combat vehicles and 20,000 artillery pieces on each side in the area stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ural Mountains. While the totals for each of the alliances are the same, the effect is immensely lopsided. To come down to those ceilings, NATO will have to destroy 2,900 tanks, for example, and no artillery. The Warsaw Pact, however, must scrap nearly 23,000 tanks and 26,900 artillery pieces...
...Lucky Santangelo -- she heads a billion-dollar shipping company but doesn't seem to go to the office much -- knife her way to ownership of Panther films, a big Hollywood studio. This she does without telling her actor husband ("Lennie was tall and lanky, with dirty-blond hair and ocean-green eyes"), who is having contract troubles with Panther. Alas, she fails to consider that Lennie's fierce male pride will curdle when she reveals herself as his boss. Disaster...
...spot? By analyzing seismic data, scientists have concluded that the New Madrid fault is a failed rift, or break, in the North American plate. Had it progressed further, the embryonic gap might have created a body of water like the Red Sea, which is slowly widening into an ocean. But hundreds of millions of years ago, the Midwestern rift stopped growing. The New Madrid fault today simply marks a weak spot in the thick midcontinental crust, which periodically ruptures under the pressure exerted by the migrating North American plate. It could take 500 to 1,000 years for enough force...