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...torrents into the valleys, sent new flood peaks surging down on the Columbia's lowlands. Nearly 48,000 were homeless in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. The Red Cross estimated that it would be two months before those whose homes had not been destroyed could return. Over all the stricken Northwest, 26 had lost their lives...
...Kellogg does not believe, as some theorists do, that soil deterioration caused the fall of older civilizations. When soil goes to pot, the causes lie deeper than farming practices, he says. "Generally, when a rural population becomes poverty-stricken, it fails to maintain its soil. An exploited people pass on their suffering to the land. Low prices, disease and wars are all important causes. Things get on a hand-to-mouth or year-to-year basis . . . Where farmers can take a long view of production, there are very few instances of conflict between those practices that give most return...
...last it became possible to buy a set without fearing that it would be outdated tomorrow. Telesets appeared in bars, and a dog in Greenwich, Conn, was stricken with television-induced eyestrain...
Meanwhile the Bow Street birdcage was shaken by the sudden illness of perennial hurler Clem Woop, stricken with an acute attack of two-line gagging. "I've got the inside track now," smirked Lionel (The Toy) Train, roundhouse-righthander, who vowed he had never been cornered...
...summoned the entire population (about 2,000) to the main square. The men were led away and machine-gunned. Under the heaps of dead, eleven survived. The women & children were locked in a schoolhouse which, along with the rest of Kalavryta, was put to the torch. A horror-stricken Austrian soldier unbolted the schoolhouse door and some women escaped...