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Horse shows can be dull if you're not really old enough to appreciate the fine points. Charles Race, 21 months, is not really old enough. So he quickly lost interest in England's annual Badminton Horse Trials and began wandering. Pretty soon he spotted the mud-covered straw that was spread around because of the rain and got a great idea. He tossed a handful of the gooey stuff at a kind-looking lady standing near by. The kind-looking lady turned out to be Queen Mother Elizabeth. She was surprised and laughed politely, but she didn...
...Mud Floods. Rain is an even greater threat than an eruption, Tazieff has warned. Only last December the flooded Reventado River pushed thousands of tons of volcanic mud onto the out skirts of Cartago, killing 13 people and wrecking hundreds of homes. Now the danger is worse. A thick layer of unstable ash has accumulated in the area between Cartago and the smoking mountain. With the rainy season approaching, it may turn into a slithery morass and, faster than a man can run, slide down the valleys, picking up rocks and trees. The first heavy rain to soak Iraz...
...explanation. "The lie that is the truth of the self" is another more portentous reflection. Whatever it is, those who feel it most are inclined to go off and hole up with muskrat skinners in the swamp drink a jug of likker and just weep into the warm mud...
...down behind the machine. The driver, John White, 33, stopped when he saw the three in front. He looked around, but did not see Klunder. Slowly, he began backing his six-ton bulldozer. When he finally stopped, the dead body of Bruce Klunder lay in the tread-marked mud...
First a Pan American Boeing 707-139 jet, coming into Kennedy Airport from Puerto Rico with 136 passengers and a crew of nine, overshot its runway and cracked apart in a sea of mud. No one was critically hurt. Then, about ten hours later, an American Airlines Lockheed Electra from Buffalo with 73 passengers and five crew members overshot a runway at La Guardia Air port and ended up in a pile of construction work. The only casualty was a construction worker who was hit by a flying stone. And less than two hours after that, an empty...