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...Then the plot drops Ladd and Fitzgerald into Nazi-held France, but leaves all novelty behind. Most of the incidents based on real O.S.S. experiences turn out to be the old, threadbare ingredients of wartime melodrama: contacting the French underground, short-waving vital messages to London, dynamiting a railway tunnel, throwing the beautiful female operator to the Gestapo wolf...
...replace the diminished Jordan, JVA will feed the Dead Sea with a river of sea water sucked out of the Mediterranean. Raised 140 feet by pumps near Haifa, it will pass through the low divide in a tunnel or a deep open cut. When it reaches the Jordan rift, it will plunge 900 feet to a power plant, then will drop 300 feet to another. The briny river's flow will be limited to about 1,000 cubic feet per second, to match evaporation from the Dead Sea. But its drop will be so great that it will generate...
Quest for Food. The colony builds long tunnels to sources of food. If a tunnel is broken, an order of unknown origin brings workers with repair materials. In dry districts the colony sinks deep wells to maintain the humidity it requires. Many termites' intestines swarm with microscopic organisms which help them digest the wood which is their standard food. Without these symbiotic helpers, these termites...
...unhappy veteran had swiped a sexy nude from an underground tunnel in Amberg, Germany. The signature, "Mich. Ang. Maestri" looked good to him until he learned last week that his original masterpiece by Michelangelo was really a colored reproduction done 200 years later...
...Tunnel of Fear. Little by little, top Nazi leaders learned to fear Martin Bormann. He had been made chief of the inner Gestapo that policed top Nazis. Reich Marshal Goring blocked up the tunnel that led from Bormann's Berchtesgaden house...