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...make matters worse. Big Ben's powerful ventilating system began to pump explosive fumes and heavy smoke through the ship. As far down as the sixth deck, the blast jammed the airtight doors. The eight men on duty in damage control put wet rags over their faces and went about their critical work of relaying messages from the bridge to the fire fighters, as their oxygen supply dwindled. "This is my last breath," one of them gasped over his headset-and it was. With agonizing slowness, rescue parties cut through the wreckage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Big Ben's Homecoming | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

...came to a stream. Some laughing Vietnamese soldiers in soaking-wet uniforms were displaying their new collection of Communist rifles and grenades. They held out hatfuls of Communist paper money that bore the portrait of Ho Chi Minh. "My men surprised a Viet Minh company, and we killed 15 of them," a Vietnamese battalion commander explained. "They say our morale is bad, but you should have seen it. My men dived into the river to get at the enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Forward Lies the Delta | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

Like other Texas oilmen, Clint Murchison has also wet his feet in politics. An early Eisenhower supporter, he financed a pro-Ike campaign paper in Texas with Richardson. He has also been a vocal and financial supporter (for about $40,000) of Senator McCarthy, and has entertained him at his Mexican ranch. Murchison once said: "I like Joe McCarthy. He's done the greatest possible service to his country." Recently, he has cooled somewhat: "I was for him and still am, but with more reservations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: The New Athenians | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

Rain didn't hamper the varsity golf team yesterday. The golfers, playing on a wet course at Dedham Country Club, walloped Holy Cross...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golfers Wallop Holy Cross; '57 Plays Governor Dummer | 5/5/1954 | See Source »

...plugged into the wall outlet. In eight years at Childrens Hospital in Los Angeles, he and Dr. Sanford R. Dietrich have seen 16 children, mostly under three, with severe electrical burns of the mouth. These, said Dr. Kiskadden, "are almost always caused by putting a live plug in a wet and drooling mouth ... It does not stay in the mouth long, but it can do a lot of damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Danger at Home | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

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