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...were finally evacuated safely. In California, gale winds whipped bridges off their foundations and stranded hundreds of motorists on the Red wood Highway. Almost every town along the Eel River, in the northwestern corner of the state, was under water. City officials in Rio Dell put out orders to knock down telephone and power poles to convert the main street into a landing pad for rescue helicopters. In the Indian reservation towns of Hoopa and Willow Creek, the whole population fled to the high-ground school auditorium. In other towns, the rampaging waters were too swift even for the fleet...
...Johnson, this concept in no way represents a forfeiture of leadership. It means merely that he is willing to accept slow but steady progress toward the "great society" he envisions, rather than risk a setback or stalemate by trying to knock heads together. Johnson's great society does not consist of some grand philosophic design. Johnson distrusts philosophy. He is a pragmatist, and his interest lies in moving step by step toward clearly attainable goals...
...mildly diverting in its melodic simplicity and ease of ap proach. Mann plays with eyes closed, standing disjointedly and undulating as if to entwine himself around the microphone, conscious that "some chicks just come to see me move. They're stone-deaf freaks, but I'm not knocking it." He doesn't knock anything, in fact, that might lure people into a nightclub. Last year, to add a little "carnival excitement," he hired two Afro-Cuban dancers who cavorted about the stage showering the audience with confetti. Such tactics, scorned by jazz purists, bring Mann...
...whose hands are so strong he can crush a golf ball between thumb and forefinger; and Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman), the person who flies lead plane in Goldfinger's private air force. With their assistance, Goldfinger intends to execute a criminal masterpiece. "Tomorrow," he blandly announces, "we will knock off Fort Knox...
Wade Welch, who came up with several excellent saves while holding North-eastern to just two goals in the first two periods, will probably be back in the nets. Harvard fans who were at Watson Wednesday will always cringe when they see Wade leave the goal to knock aside a pass, though. In his maiden attempt to emulate Jacques Plante, Welch skated 25 feet out, but missed the puck and could only watch it slowly slide into the net behind...