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...unpredictable, slab avalanches occur when one cohesive layer of snow breaks free of the ground or of other snow layers. They can be caused by rising temperatures that send lubricating water between layers of snow, letting the white blanket slip like a quilt from the bed of a tossing sleeper. Exerting forces as great as 100 tons per square yard, such avalanches have been known to upend steel locomotives, push small bridges hundreds of feet from their pilings and rip up vast reaches of forest...
...down, read the playbill (looked just like the ones back home) and noticed that the empty seats held the majority in the second balcony. A sleeper, I thought. Noted that the playbill marked Buchwald as a "humor conglomerate." And, indeed, the main attraction was a Buchwald conglomerate, if not exactly a play...
...Ojukwu was still directing the war from a heavily camouflaged lodge in a small village near Owerri, with no indication that he foresaw the debacle approaching. He followed a schedule that began at 8 a.m. and often continued until 3:30 a.m. -"I have not been much of a sleeper since I was a child." He pinned his hopes for Biafra's survival on domestic disorders in Nigeria. "Nigeria is a free-for-all," he said. "Gowon's only asset is that he can get British support." Bitterly, Ojukwu described the battles around him as "Mr. Wilson...
PENN-COLUMBIA: This is today's real sleeper: bring a pillow. Reports indicate that both teams will be trying to win, and it is encouraging to think that, in all probabilit, one will be successful. The Quakers gained 11 yards on the ground last weekend, and if they can duplicate that feat today, then maybe even the Lions could win or tie, or what have you. Penn, on pride...
UNIVERSITY policy toward its urban environment emerged as the sleeper of the April events. Individuals had obviously been concerned and Professor Wilson had completed his report but the issue was not a focus of popular attention. April did draw out of the administration a commitment to build low cost housing in Boston and Cambridge. However, this commitment might well have been secured without disrupting the University. The anti-ROTC campaign launched by the left during the fall had culminated in February in the faculty decision which in effect abolished ROTC. A similar campaign might have worked in the case...