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Good Deeds. Outside the routine work of helping to run the Coast's harbor services, TR's deeds have been numerous, if not publicized. Alfred Miller, refrigerator serviceman, saw smoke trailing from a vent on a munitions ship. Sparks in a pile of sawdust had started a fire. In time's nick Miller sounded an alarm, got credit for preventing the kind of catastrophe which devastated Halifax when a munitions ship blew up in the harbor...
...this point began as mad a scramble as war ever witnessed in a Harvard classroom. Man and beast locked in a struggle of obstinacy while students held onto their seats and gave vocal vent to their reactions. The professor lunged at the animal, but with every lunge the dog skillfully evaded him, accompanying each parry with a resounding howl...
Unlike the students in the classroom, the animal became enamoured of the instructor's voice and whenever the dulcet tones reached his ears he proceeded to give vent to a sound which vaguely resembled a mating call. This was, to say the least, unusual, particularly since this was a class in electronics, a subject as far removed from biology as anything...
...Survey, gave the answer: "No." Reporting to his volcanic boss, Secretary of Interior Ickes, Dr. Loughlin estimated that the chances were three or four million to one against a blockbuster touching off a volcanic eruption. It might happen, said he, if a bomb hit a rock wedged in the vent of a volcano which was just barely holding the volcanic force back. But, he added, "the earth forces involved are so enormous as compared with any that man can bring to bear that the latter are wholly inconsequential...
...terms of the Geneva Convention. By this agreement, captives must be kept safe from "acts of violence, insults and public curiosity." They are prisoners but not criminals, can not be confined in penitentiaries, subjected to corporal punishment or any form of cruelty. They have regular complaint courts to vent POW frustration. They are still soldiers, maintain their own military discipline, salute only their captors of superior rank. They live like soldiers - but in a cage - and they gripe like soldiers...