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...hospital was evacuated. A quarter of Harlingen's population was taken to higher ground in outlying areas. Upstream at Mercedes (pop. 10,081), frantic crews dumped twelve-ton bales of car bodies into the gap at the broken weir, but the arroyo swallowed everything with hardly a gulp, and downstream the tide climbed inexorably. Then liquid fingers poked through a levee north of Harlingen, sending a second spearhead of water toward the heart of town. Surrounded, isolated, exhausted, Harlingen was engulfed...
...demand for the metal (for everything from computer diodes to the skin of Titan III), the store of gold in the free world's central banks actually dwindled for the first time in modern history. So far, the U.S. and British balance-of-payments deficits have covered the gap, but if and when the deficits are brought under control, the resulting shortage of funds could cripple international commerce...
...House is supposed to bridge the gap between a student's academic and social life," Kaufman said yesterday, "and that's just what we are trying...
...Administration's decision was a response to the Soviet's construction of a similar umbrella around several cities. Since the Russians' efforts became public knowledge last year, there has been inecssant howling from Republicans and some Democrats about a new "missile gap." Richard Nixon-- the victim of the last such "gap"--theratened to make ABM's an issue in the 1968 Presidential campaign...
...central failure of the play is a credibility gap between the audience and the characters. One believes in neither their shenanigans nor their sufferings. The actors do not close the gap. Ingrid Bergman is beguilingly lovely at 52, but she poses, more often than she performs, for a camera that is not there. Colleen Dewhurst puts consistent bristle, greed and spunk into Sara, bul cajolery does not seem to be her brand of brogue. Since quite a bit of O'Neill's dialogue is melodramatic, maudlin or mushy, Arthur Hill does little more than tread gingerly...