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...rippling of the Viege River. The dam itself was untouched. Next day, Swiss soldiers and rescue workers clawed at the mass in a drenching rain, once interrupting the search to run for their lives when word came that cracks in another large section of the glacier threatened to dump more ice onto the valley floor. Groaned one engineer: "This is like chipping away at the Rock of Gibraltar. It will take months, perhaps years...
...they seem to get with Schlesinger's reminiscences of the Kennedy Administration, especially with his remarks that the Kennedys, Bobby as well as Jack, didn't really want Lyndon as Vice President, and his disclosure that Jack thought Dean Rusk was a nothing and was going to dump...
...artist's paradise. The ambiance was inspirational, the scenery delicious and, most important, around every corner waited a spacious, high-ceilinged studio flooded with the luminescence of the Parisian sky. Dirt cheap, too. The School of Paris was virtually born in the Bateau-Lavoir, a Montmartre dump so named for its ramshackle resemblance to a laundry barge. Picasso, Juan Gris, Utrillo and Braque all lived there before World War I. La Ruche (The Beehive) in Montparnasse was a roachy, twelve-sided wooden structure with wedge-shaped studios where Modigliani, Soutine, and even the nonartistic Lenin lived. Said Marc Chagall...
...sour note with Violinist Jascha Heifetz that he had his lawyer write up a complaint. Then, too, the trail of the ice cream man is apt to be a messy one. Observes a Chicago mother of four: "When those trucks pull away, my front lawn looks like a garbage dump. I break my back every day just picking up sticky wrappers...
...case at least they have also led to impassioned criticism of the court. As a result of Mallory, a Washington, D.C., mailman named James Killough was released from prison even though he had confessed on three occasions to strangling his wife and tossing her body on a dump "like a piece of garbage." An appellate court excluded all three confessions because the police had broken the law by grilling the suspect for 15 hours before taking him before a U.S. commissioner. Forced to free Killough for lack of other evidence, U.S. District Judge George L. Hart Jr. bitterly protested...