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Vast geologic forces stir in the Tuscarora Deep, a submarine trench facing Japan. Last week a section of the ocean floor gave way, creating a violent tremor. Ten-foot seismic waves of water thundered toward the main home island of Honshu, raced up the funnel neck of Kii Strait, dealt sleeping villages across 60,000 square miles six shattering blows in three hours. Tokyo newspapers called it the worst disaster since the great earthquake of September 1923, which killed 143,000. Said famed Fordham Seismologist Father Joseph J. Lynch: "A ripsnorter...
Inescapable Implication. Hoxha's feud with Britain went beyond diplomatic skirmishing. Last May the British cruisers Orion and Superb were cruising in the Strait of Corfu, a 2-to 15-mile-wide corridor between Albania and the Greek island of Corfu. An Albanian shore battery opened fire, missed. Last month the Royal Navy destroyers Saumarez and Volage, cruising in the same Strait, ran into mines, were crippled. Casualties totaled 38 dead, 50 injured. British indignation was heated. Said a high-ranking Royal Navy officer: "There's no difference between this and bombing the British Home Fleet at Scapa...
...British took matters into their own hands. From the Central Mine Clearance Board, an organization of the world's maritime nations, including Russia, they got permission to sweep Corfu Strait. Last week the Admiralty announced that 22 moored mines, all from German stocks, had been cut and destroyed. Discreetly it was recalled that the Strait had been swept clean once before-in August 1945. The implication that the Albanians had put the new mines there was inescapable...
...those around her as a nervous disorder, and, like Saint Joan, she is forced to submit to questioning. When her first inquisitor, her hysterical father, uncovers nothing but his own cowardice, a psychiatrist is called in. The psychiatrist emerges from the ordeal fit to be put in a strait jacket. Then a perspicacious Catholic abbé, who has secretly doubted the existence of God for many years, is summoned-and finds himself newly inspired with religious faith...
...only 4 ft. 6 in. tall. His ankles and abdomen were bloated. His heart beat so faintly that it could scarcely be detected. At Detroit's Art Center (osteopathic) Hospital, Surgeon Albert Collum Johnson guessed that the boy's heart was in some kind of strait jacket. His guess was right...