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...ravaged town's needs were tremendous. About 80 blocks of paving had been ripped up by the flood, mud covered a fifth of the city, drinking water was polluted, telephones and electricity were out and thousands were homeless, hungry or in need of clothing. The search for bodies was difficult. Rescue workers expect to find bodies as far away as 50 miles downstream from Rapid City. Others may never be discovered. Flying over the scene last week, TIME Correspondent William Friedman saw stranded victims waving scarves, stones placed to spell out SOS, white sheets stretched to form huge...
Walls of water rolled across highways, knocked down power lines, ruptured tanks containing propane gas. Explosions and fire erupted anomalously amid the surging waters. Landslides sent mud cascading down the hills. Homes buckled, cars were swept away, bridges and small dams collapsed...
...many Kennedys in one place-including non-Candidate Teddy-physical as well as pet competition had to be included. Bobby's son Michael, 14, won on the obstacle course (1 min. 19 sec.), while his brother Joe, 19, fell over every hurdle and flopped spectacularly into a mud puddle. "Bobby Shriver could do it backward better than that," needled Eunice Shriver, who was the star of the Slide-for-Life sling-a survival rig of ropes and pulleys set up by the Green Berets...
...country girl actually raised in a log cabin in Elba, Ala. ("We used to go fishing for mud fish in the Pea River -that's what it was called"), Cornelia heard constant talk of politics from her twice-widowed mother, Ruby Folsom Ellis Austin,* who served as official hostess for her brother before he remarried. Cornelia's father, Charles G. Ellis, a civil engineer, died in 1960. At Montgomery's Methodist Huntingdon College and Florida's Rollins College, Cornelia studied voice and piano. Then she slipped into what she calls "my little hillbilly jag." She sang...
...villains or heroes or saints or devils, because there were none; there were only victims," said Dalton Trumbo. Vaughn's book proves Trumbo's sorry point: the Broadway and Hollywood figures he discusses are pitiable figures, betraying each other, groveling in the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) mud, victimizing themselves to save their earning power. The few heroes, those people who defended their integrity and friends, were the most obvious victims. If they refused to cooperate they were thrown into jail, blacklisted, and destroyed...