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...yards of rock removed, engineers believed that the remaining potential slide-rock was too light to break loose. They will go on to remove the last 500,000 cubic yards, however. Then Contractor's Hill, once a sheer wall when seen from the canal, will be a terraced slope...
Rikitake set up a permanent observation station in an old air-raid shelter dug into Mihara's western slope. In October 1951 his instruments showed that the vol cano's magnetism was slowly weakening...
Veteran in the Rear. Up "Heartbreak Hill," the steep slope near Boston College, Pulkkinen began to turn it on. He passed Costes, but he could not hold the pace. Behind him, and gaining steadily, was Hamamura, the tireless Japanese. When he passed the Leyden Congregational Church, Hamamura was in front. At Coolidge Corner, the last check point, he was right up with the course record set by his countryman, Keizo Yamada, in 1953. "Record, y'understan'? Record!" screamed a reporter from the press bus. Hamamura, who understood not a word, grinned back, a gold tooth glinting through...
...Irish historian noted suspiciously that "it is a curious circumstance that this sport is produced only by the Presbyterians." No Presbyterian, President Rutherford B. Hayes, a para-Methodist, established egg rolling on the White House lawn. Before his time, children had rolled their eggs down the Capitol slopes as a climax to their annual Sunday School Union parades, but Congress was fussy about its grass, and ordered them off the premises in 1877. Hayes welcomed them to the White House grounds. By the first Administration of Grover Cleveland, the annual egg roll had been souffleed to its present overwhelming routine...
...European tour begins with a heart-stopping panorama of the Alps, as the plane glides over them toward the Zurich airport; then on to a rattling good bobsled run and a grand ski-daddle down the famous slope at Davos. Off to Paris: quick looks at the city, the Louvre, High Mass in Notre Dame, spring showings in Jacques Path's salon, the soubrettes in a big tourist boite. The best thing in the show is a study of the children's faces as they watch the Guignol in the park...