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Spread along the eastern Thames shore about four miles above New London and about a mile below Gales Ferry, Yale's headquarters, Red Top stands on a wooded slope in solitude, characterized by a leisurely, narrow, rock-strewn path from the dormitory and dining hall through the foliage to the boathouse...
...want to live." That, says the pamphlet, is "the submissive Jewish Agency way." On another page stands a youth with a Tommy gun: "The fighting Hebrew resistance way!" Hecht on official Zionists: "They gabble . . . they want a sanctuary where the Jews of Europe can all stand on a rock and eat philanthropy-fish till the Messiah arrives. . . . Jewish wealth and respectability are fearlessly rushing sandwiches...
Then the weather around the tornado junction of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas quieted down for a while. But the next day the great, hedgehopping twister was on the go again. This time it struck in the small plantation communities 40 miles south of Little Rock, Ark. (pop. 88,000), cut a 20-mile swath of freakish destruction, destroyed over 1,000 houses and other buildings, killed 34 people. While rescuers searched the wreckage for more bodies, they kept a wary eye on the western horizon...
...fellow cave crawlers twelve years to explore the Dent de Crolles, which is riddled with caves like a geological Swiss cheese. Back in the Tertiary period (10 million years ago), says M. Chevalier, the mountain was much taller. Snow water from the youthful peak worked its way into the rock, gnawing wells and tunnels and vast, echoing halls in the soluble limestone. Then, as the peak itself eroded away, the channels gradually lost their water supply and became a "fossil drainage system." Another elaborate system, still rushing with water, now drains through the diminished peak...
Died. Glenn Allan Millikan, 40, mountain-climbing physiology professor at Vanderbilt University Medical School, son of Nobel Prizewinning Nuclear Physicist Robert A. Millikan; when a rock fell on him while he was scaling a cliff; in Pikesville, Tenn...