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...Curtain one better. But this picture will enlighten all Gov 20 students laboring under the belief that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is run from Moscow. Apparently acting independently, the Russian ambassador to America decides that the capitalists "must be stopped--at any cost." The Russians plan to resink the Titanic. Once it is raised, the clever foreigners phone in a false distress call, deluding the good-hearted American destroyer guarding the resurrected liner into leaving. Then, a Russian envoy boards with the news that the Russian "research vessel" is actually a warship (will they stop at nothing...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: SINK THE TITANIC | 8/8/1980 | See Source »

...that the *Of the rest, 79% are Bell, some 3% mutual system is so lackadaisical about repairs that they frequently have to make them themselves. No less archaic is the company's pole policy. When poles blow down or rot away, line men whack off the diseased portion, resink the stub into the ground. Result is that subscribers sometimes have to stoop to get under the wires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Hello? | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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