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...other stories, notably The Other John Peel and The Firebug, are well told but have the characteristic defect in that Sillitoe's automata of the sub-world are moved to explain themselves in terms of those heavily bearded bores Marx and Freud. An unctuous homiletic tone slops over into the hard-case dialogue as Sillitoe labors to make clear that the allright blokes are pro-Corn and the real rozzers are Tory types...
...meeting was to have been at the MDC's headquarters at 20 Somerset St. in Boston, but the large turnout forced the commission to move it to the 800-seat Gardner Auditorium, a block away in the sub-basement of the State House...
Each Polaris sub can carry 16 missiles. The A1s and A2s are operational...
Such considerations aside, the Japanese during the past few years have won an enviable reputation for ingenious engineering. Tokyo's Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering, the world's largest shipbuilder, has launched an 11,000-ton freighter whose "bulbous bow" (like a nuclear sub's) enables it to cruise at 20 knots on 25% less fuel than conventional ships. Kobe's Kawasaki Heavy Industry recently launched a 29,000-ton tanker whose engine and control systems are so highly automated that it is manned by only 31 crewmen v. 62 for comparable tankers. Also at Kobe, Mitsubishi Heavy...
...threatens him, and poor Jim has a tough time staying chaste. Garner is Doris' husband, but she has been missing since a plane crash five years earlier, so he marries Polly Bergen. The newlyweds have no sooner departed for a honeymoon in Monterey than out of a Navy sub hops this cute freckled blonde wearing blue denims and a sailor hat. "You're not too late!" screeches Doris' mother-in-law, Thelma Ritter. Then begins an unmercifully tedious rescue operation to keep Bergen and Garner from consummating their marriage...