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...calculations, the bomb could have landed just about anywhere over an area of scores of square miles, and the parachute could have acted as a sea anchor in the swift coastal cur rents, tugging the bomb into less accessible depths. Then, too, the sea floor's shifting mud might have ultimately hidden the bomb from view...
...Bullfight. Outside of Bucharest, the Latin influence fades quickly into what visitors call "Turkish baroque"-a conglomerate of minarets and mud walls, soaring spiked fences and rambling cattle. Cluj (formerly Klausenburg) is Rumania's second city-with a population of 170,000 and an undeserved reputation as headquarters for Dracula, the world's first Batman. Heartily Hungarian in mood (it is the capital of the Magyar Autonomous Region), Cluj is an intellectual center that serves Bucharest in much the same way that Cracow does Warsaw, or Leningrad Moscow. There the works of Absurdist Eugene Ionesco get a frequent...
...storm water chlorination chamber might not have been necessary if another project "to do something" with the river had been successful. The Charles was originally a tidal river; twice a day it overflowed its banks from Boston to Watertown, covering marshland, and twice a day it shrank leaving ugly mud flats...
...project proceeded and was eventually completed as the dozer came to level the road, and the councilman came to dump two truckloads of sand for the workers to spread and tamp. The drained mud dried in the sun and was covered with sand and urban community development gained another adherent. Sunday came to a close. The workers congratulated themselves on a job well done, the councilman busily shook hands, and the Peace Corps Volunteers went for a beer...
...packed my bags and moved to Masingbe, a town of about 2300 people and headquarters of Kunike Chiefdom. Immediately after my arrival, I went to the highest point in the town to survey my new home: the huts of mud, wattle, and burlap; the fragrance of lilac, frangipani, and purple-tassled flowers filling the heavy air -- ah, sweet life. While I was gone my house was robbed...