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...brink of economic collapse. Then engineers devised a method of extracting iron from crushed taconite, a flintlike rock that contains some 25% iron. Reserve Mining, which is owned by Armco and Republic Steel, easily obtained dumping permits on the assumption that the gray torrent of taconite would sink 900 feet to the bottom of the lake's "Great Trough...
...going out. Midlands auto factories began massive layoffs; the textile industry reported itself in "chaotic" shape. Londoners had to cope with horrendous traffic jams as traffic and street lights went blank. Children were sent home from heatless schools. Housewives faced piles of unwashed diapers, watched their soufflés sink, and could take no refuge in their powerless television sets. The blackouts were rotated by districts in six three-hour periods a day that always seemed to coincide with mealtimes. In some rural areas, chilly Britons hoisted shovels to dig their own coal...
What about Plato's insistence that ancient Atlantis sank from sight "in a day and a night"? Minoan Crete did nothing of the kind, of course, but Santorini did sink. Moreover, its sudden destruction brought down Crete, and with Crete went the whole Minoan civilization...
...question of the survival of our aircraft carriers in the event of war would not be whether they would survive the first blow, but rather how many seconds they would take to sink. The Russian guided-missile cruisers constantly shadowing U.S. carriers in the Mediterranean make those ships the "sitting ducks" the Russians call them. I agree with Brigadier Hunt's analysis that our Navy is second-rate; it is old and outgunned. A World War II Navy cannot maintain the peace in the 1970s...
Such stuff turns back the most attentive and sympathetic efforts to see things Cyril's way, which is unfortunately the only way Hawkes provides. Motives and individual fates sink under the trumped-up fetishes, and the vision is hopelessly blurred...