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...they're on patrol in Viet Nam, and their rifle goes boom and injures them because it's defective, they can sue the guy that manufactured it." To hear Belli tell it, he could collect damages for the families of the men lost when the nuclear submarine Thresher went down...
...saying that they are hungry for human meat). Smallest is the porbeagle, a toothy rascal that inhabits the North Atlantic and grows to a mere 600 Ibs. There is the slender blue shark, a handsome indigo in color and up to 800 Ibs. of pure ferocity; the weird-looking thresher, which batters its prey senseless with an enormous scythelike tail and comes in an economy-size 1,000-lb. package; and the voracious tiger shark, which reportedly tops two tons-though the biggest ever caught on rod and reel weighed...
Another new focus of college politics is the battle against monopoly campus newspapers. At Rice it only takes the form of a letter from a sorority girl chiding the Thresher for not publishing anything about sororities. But the issue reaches larger proportions eleswhere. At Wisconsin, a Campus Newspaper Student Committee is investigating inequities in the Wisconsin Cardinal; at Berkeley an organization called Students for University Truth purchases space in the Daily Californian for vehement tirades against the newspaper...
...loss of the nuclear submarine Thresher last year in 8,400 ft. of water was a painful reminder of just how much of the ocean bottom lies below the Navy's reach. The bathyscaphe Trieste could dive to the general area of the Thresher's wreck, but it could not do much that was worthwhile when it got there. Instruments and grappling devices operated from surface ships were all but useless in strong currents and rough seas...
With 19 seconds left in the game. Boston led by only two points 101-99. Trying for the clincher. Forward Heinsohn fired and missed. Everybody converged on the basket, clawing for the rebound. Chamberlain reached up, but Russell got there first. "Flailing like a wheat thresher, he bounded high into the air, plucked the loose ball off the backboard and, all in the same motion, rammed it through the basket-"all the way up to my elbows." he said later...