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...peasant general who fought for the Republicans in the Spanish civil war (one of the few people ever to have escaped from a Soviet prison camp), has described the storms which sweep over the Vorkuta during the winter: "The watch dogs of our guards sensed the approach of a snowstorm before we did; they began to howl and whine, and this would be the signal to start cutting holes into the frozen ground where there was no other shelter. One day a shift of 150 prisoners on its way back to camp was caught in a sudden storm only...
...swallowed and screamed. His mother rushed him to a doctor, who gave him mineral oil and kept him on soothing milk and ice cream for three weeks. But one morning Mike could no longer swallow: scar tissue had closed his esophagus (gullet). He was driven 124 miles through a snowstorm to Denver's Colorado General Hospital. There, Mike was fed intravenously and through a tiny plastic tube forced through his esophagus, to build him up for surgery...
...weeks ago, in a "meaningless" league game that did not effect the league standings and had no bearing on the championship, the Lions had worked their old hex on the Browns, winning the game, in a driving snowstorm, by 14 to 10. Brilliant Quarterback Bobby Layne (TIME, Nov. 29), passing as if it were a calm, dry day, completed six passes in the closing minutes to put over the winning touchdown. This "preview," as it turned out, was highly deceptive. On the day of the championship this week, when they came to grips on the same field...
Snowbound. Next day the Vice President was off for Montana and speeches at Billings, Bozeman and Butte. Nixon had planned to fly on to Wyoming for speeches at Worland, Casper and Cheyenne, but an early-season snowstorm left him stranded overnight in Bozeman. The Cheyenne speech, which had already been released to the press, was another attack against "the Democratic Party's left-wing clique, which has been so blind to, and has tolerated, the Communist conspiracy in the United States." It also included something that is almost certain to explode into bitter controversy: a list of twelve security...
They holed up in their tent during a three-day snowstorm, then spent four more days cutting exactly 1,038 steps up another great wall of ice. At about 2:30 p.m. on May 15, the day they were due back, they reached the peak, left souvenirs and posed for pictures-"Like at Coney Island," Argus said. The next day they started down along the conventional north route instead of the South Buttress; it was, they knew, far easier and safer-but not really safe...