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...Sharks. Ten miles out of Port Sudan, a high wind drove Ghalib's craft with a splintering roar on to a submerged coral reef called Tarfaniya. Twenty-two pilgrims arid two sailors scrambled on to a 14-foot lattice tower made of railroad tracks, erected on the reef as a warning to shipping. Captain Ghalib, two of his sailors and ten of the Nigerians could not make it, and were swept away. The survivors saw the waters around the reef churn and turn red as sharks pulled them down...
...meeting for a replay of the old Stalin record of peaceful intentions toward the West. "At present," said he, "and in the future, there is no . . . question which cannot be solved by peaceful means. This refers to relations with all states, including . . . the U.S. . . ." The delegates broke into a roar of applause, and the more starry-eyed Western diplomats, on hand for the rigged meeting, began to hear the beat of the wings of Russia's mechanized dove of peace; some of them interpreted Malenkov's generalized remarks as an invitation for the U.S. to come...
...first stroke of noon by the Kremlin clock, a wave of sound-artillery salvos, clanging chimes, blasting factory whistles-ranged across Soviet Russia and its satellites. Thus was the conqueror laid to rest-not with a prayer, but with whistle's scream and cannon's roar...
...little, tonguelike organ in the center of the dish vibrates with fierce excitement. Somewhere, far beyond human sight, it has spotted an enemy jet diving down from the edge of space at close to the speed of sound. It stares intently for a second or so; then with a roar of gears and motors, the gun springs to life. While its carriage whirls and its tube swings upward, the radar still stares at the target. It acts uncannily like a hunter who squats in his blind and watches the sky for ducks. When he glimpses one over his shoulder...
...electric lights in the house and street went out. When his daughter cried out, "Don't let father die in the dark!", all the lights flashed on again. And in that instant, Booth died. As his coffin was being carried from the church in New York, a "splintering roar" was heard in Washington. By a macabre coincidence, the interior supports of Ford's Theater had collapsed, killing 21 people. He left a new tradition, but the old one pursued...