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...River Moves. Last week engineers began closing the escape valves in the great dam. Slowly, inch by inch, the Isère began, backing up. The stubborn peasants of Tignes thought they had one last chance: at a local election last week they voted a solid resistance ticket. All night the town made merry while the new councilors planned a last ditch stand against the company. They would die or drown before they would move from their beloved town, they said. From all over France came reporters and photographers to record Tignes's heroic defiance...
...filling the TV screen: she recites, sings (in a pleasant little voice), dances (inexpertly), and breathes deeply. She prefers to play the dumb blonde off the set as well as on, but Dagmar is shrewdly aware of fundamentals. Says she: "I used to think I had a 40-inch bust. Last week I discovered I'm a 42, and I thought we'd better tell the people about this right away...
...tallest men on last seasons's squad, the six-foot-five-inch center, who also played on the '52 football squad, was an Everett High School basketball and gridiron star...
...looking, with sloping hoods that give them greater road vision than many other U.S. cars. The new models have 25% more window space than last year's and the widest seats on the road (64½-in. rear seat, 65-in. front), although the body is only 1 inch wider...
Taken directly from a performance at the Colonial Theatre in Boston last March 16, the recording includes all five acts of the play with music and the audience's applause. This first edition, published on the anniversary of the Boston performance, contains 160 numbered copies, each on three 12-inch long-playing discs...