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...Ottumwa, la., at least seven people were killed and 16,000 made homeless when the rain-choked Des Moines River burst its banks. Flash floods in Ohio, South Dakota, Missouri and Oregon killed six people and sent refugees fleeing for high ground. Near Rutland, Vt., an over taxed power dam burst, left 500 homeless, 18,000 without light, drinking water...
...want to work a few years," added the blondish, 21 (but looks younger) New Jersian as she received the floral wreath in the winner's circle, amid flash bulbs and applause...
...TIME'S statement was based on eyewitness accounts by correspondents for TIME, the Associated Press and numerous national and local newspapers. Technical opinion now seems pretty well agreed that flash fires, rather than explosions, caused the Monsanto holocaust...
...business, preferences ideological and national give way to one of the most remarkable assortments of reading matter available anywhere: Daily Worker, Irish World, Turf Flash, plus language sheet and pulp (over 600 in toto) mingle on the shelves unembarrassed while Felix looks down with a benign tolerance. "It's no matter if a man buy something," he reasons, "he like to see what it's all about." What does dismay him is the wicked popularity of sex trash. When men are buying that which is portable cover-out, it will likely be current bestsellers Life and Look--new faces since...
...Lynch became a hard-drinking news photographer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in the acrid era of flash powder, singed eyelashes and burning lace curtains. "You could always tell a photographer," he recalls. "One hand would be bound in picric acid gauze, and his eyebrows would be burned off." You could tell Slim Lynch by a shapeless cap, a tired-looking overcoat, a cynical stare. He sharpened his camera eye on such famed stories as the Weyerhaeuser kidnaping-and hardened his stomach on raids on rural stills (the newsmen usually split the "take" with the dry squad...