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...bunch of Mums passed a blue truck parked in a side street, a voice cried out: "Lady, lady, will you phone the police? We are tied up in here." "Ah, you're having us on," replied Maude Smyth, 50, the archetype of English womanhood, from home perm to sensible walking shoes. "Truly, lady," came the very English reply from inside, "if you look through the crack you'll see us trussed up like chickens." Maude Smyth and her three stout companions looked, and great consternation followed. For the bingo ladies of Kentish Town were the first to learn...
...HRPC audits the Government department. The University establishes a Ph. D. program in decision-making, but it requires proficiency in advanced calculus. The Freshman Jubilee Committee falls to convince Radcliffe that it should perm a "lay-in" to be held in Radcliffe Yard...
...Down in Perm. First hint of any kind of trouble came when Russian radio and TV said nothing about the flight for more than eight hours. Finally came the announcement, four hours after the event, that the cosmonauts had guided their ship to a perfect landing near the city of Perm, 750 miles northeast of Moscow. This is hilly, forested country on the western slope of the Urals, and much more hazardous than the barren, level steppes of Kazakhstan, where Soviet spacemen usually touch down...
Apparent Error. If any Soviet spacecraft has gone astray and landed on an ocean or other inhospitable spot, the world has not been told about it. Last week's landing near Perm was the first apparent error. A late report said that Colonel Belyayev fired his retrorockets while over Africa to check the ship's speed and start it curving down toward the earth. He was said to be the first Soviet spaceman to take over the landing controls himself, but whether this action was planned or was forced by some failure of the automatic-landing system...
FLOOD by Robert Perm Warren. 440 pages. Random House...