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...sounded like a farfetched sequel to The Poseidon Adventure: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat asserted last week that Britain's newest and most luxurious passenger liner, the" Queen Elizabeth 2, was nearly torpedoed by an Egyptian submarine as the liner plowed through the Mediterranean with 590 Jewish passengers going to Israel's 25th anniversary celebrations in April 1973. Only his own intervention, Sadat said during an interview telecast over the BBC in London, aborted the attack...
Viet Nam Aid. With little debate, the Senate and House also approved the Pentagon's request for $1.9 billion for two Trident submarines. The Navy wants ten Tridents to start replacing the smaller, slower Polaris-Poseidon submarines by 1978. Both houses voted to continue the B-1 bomber program as well, though they disagreed on how much should be authorized for next year. The Air Force plans to buy 244 B-1s by 1980, at a cost of $15 billion, to replace the aging...
Real Rumble. The disaster cycle was triggered by the recent success of The Poseidon Adventure, a star-laden epic of escape from an ocean liner turned upside down by a capricious tidal wave. Poseidon has grossed $141 million so far, bringing its studio, 20th Century-Fox, $72 million in profit. Such success does not go unimitated in Hollywood, and the studios have now flung themselves into a lemming-like race for the quintessential cataclysm...
...Problem (namely a space shot gone awry); Gloria Swanson doing a dotty old lady thing with her friends the Killer Bees; Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner in a Love Story with wheelchair called The Affair. There were also obvious borrowings from Hollywood hits-among the recent ones: several mini-Poseidon adventures with oddly assorted casts trapped in runaway trains and stalled elevators and even an elegiac western whose gimmick was readily apparent from the title, Mrs. Sundance...
Draper, a guidance and navigation lab that receives 85 per cent of its funds from the Department of Defense and helped develop the Polaris, Poseidon and Trident missiles, announced it was joining a Boston development firm in building a $30 million Technology Square complex that will keep about 2000 jobs in Cambridge...