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...that will help them land rewarding civilian jobs, they have an option. "I want to go down in a Jules Verne-submarine," they can demand, and before long they'll be on location, somewhere in the Atlantic, driving around bathyscapes in search of the ship "even God couldn't sink." Some of the submarines "implode" (burst apart at the seams to the detriment of their crews), but others survive to pump the hull of the 900-foot liner full of foam ("Gillette Foamy is rich and thick enough..."). A few dynamite charges shake the hull free of the bottom...
...prevent the recession from getting any worse. The Fed has switched from a draconian clampdown on the growth of money all spring to a breathless 14.9% annual rate of increase in June. Moreover, it has begun cautiously lowering the levels to which it will let certain key interest rates sink. At the same time, the U.S. central bank, in a further effort to feed cash and credit back into the economy, is also phasing out the panoply of temporary credit controls that it placed on the economy last March...
...suggests that on one of the out islands is an entirely unmerry band of buccaneers, living by a squalid code unchanged since their ancestors washed up there a couple of centuries ago. It is they who come out of the night to rob and murder unsuspecting voyagers, then sink their ships to conceal the evidence of piracy. Michael Caine plays a reporter who is investigating the Triangle. On a fishing trip, he and his son are captured by these physically and morally repellent people. Caine is required to revitalize the stock in this inbred clan. His son (Jeffrey Frank...
...society chip in--we will end up making the wrong ones for decades to come. We will fight wars to defend a national interest determined in a few corporate boardrooms. We will continue to polarize our society economically so that a handful maintain their standard of consumption while many sink into an abyss of hopeless misery. Worst of all, as we struggle to save the least desirable qualities of the American way of life, we will lose hold of its most valuable freedoms...
...occurred to any of these wise heads that the Soviets may not be as soft on us as we were on them? That they may not give us time to catch up? That they may very well decide to sink us while we are the weaker ship...