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Tuesday dawned. The weather in the gulf turned bad. Thunder rumbled across the water. Sporadic storms churned waves, and the two U.S. destroyers pitched and rolled. Despite the rough going, Maddox radar late in the afternoon again detected the presence of distant company: several tiny blips moved across the scope in tracks paralleling those of the Maddox...
...going full blast under the guidance of Holy Rollers and thunder-voiced spiritualists, some of whom drive new Cadillacs and live in the suburbs. It is a woman complaining: "Whenever you have a lot of preachers jumping on their head and rolling on the floor like hogs, I tell you, you can't get no place like that. You see people foaming, your women with their dresses up over their heads. My God, you can't get no place like that." But almost as numerous as the churches are the tawdry bars and the liquor stores...
...years since the end of the British Raj, the Indian subcontinent has repeatedly echoed to the thunder of populations on the move. More than 17 million Hindus and Moslems fled across the borders of India and Pakistan in the wake of partition and religious strife in 1947. Since last January, 900,000 more have poured over the frontiers to escape a new wave of religious persecution. Last week still another mass migration was underway as thousands of India's newest dispossessed flocked home from neighboring Burma...
...nothing less for himself than a tenancy at No. 10 Downing Street, nothing less for England than perpetuation of the British Empire. Both dreams went glimmering. He could take a strong hand in changing British governments, and did three times, but he never headed one himself. He could thunder the cause of Empire in the pages of the Express, but the cause was doomed...
...Obvious." The thunder has been rolling in almost every corner of a company that pours more steel (27 million tons a year) than all of Great Britain. Since 1960, U.S. Steel has cut its work force from 225,000 to 183,400. Some 3,000 executives-more than 10% of the company's management-have been released or sent to early retirement. Another 2,500 executives, who have what one U.S. Steel official calls "good records and good attitudes," have been rooted up from such outposts as Birmingham, Cleveland and Provo, Utah, leaving behind a surfeit...