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Across the South into Texas and Oklahoma went St. Swithin's trouble. The San Saba River (southwest Texas) flooded an area 100 miles long, 50 miles wide, making ranchers swim for their lives, when 14 inches of rain fell in a week...
Headmaster Bonner got his big idea during the War when, at high-pressure Plattsburg Officers Training Camp, he was polished as an officer in three months, simply by concentration. But militaristic regimentation is taboo at Redding Ridge. Boys are encouraged to swim, play tennis and golf, sports which they will enjoy later in life. (Mr. Bonner wryly admits he would have had trouble developing a football team with five boys...
...convenience of fish. Object of the system is to enable Columbia River salmon to pursue their four-year life cycle: hatch in gravel beds in the river's upper tributaries, grow several inches, drift down to the ocean tailfirst, get to weigh anywhere from 10-to 60 lb., swim back up the Columbia River to spawn and die exactly where they started. The system, consists of 1) two separate "stairways" (of one-foot waterfalls separated by pools 16 ft. wide) for fish who feel like climbing to the headwaters under their own power; 2) four "lifts," somewhat similar...
...things done . . . with ample guarantees against . . . abuse of such power"; 4) security for "those who work on the farm and in the city . . . measured by ... contribution"; 5) no more "coddling or spoon-feeding . . . restore to every American the opportunity to help himself. After that, he can sink or swim...
...animal touches an electric eel, he will be mildly shocked. But if he were brash enough to grab both the eel's head and tail at the same time, he might get a 500-volt charge. These electric eels, which grow to 8 ft., 50 lb., swim about in stagnant pools, paralyze small fish by discharging electricity, can keep their prey unconscious for several hours, gobble them up at will. The uneaten fish recover from the paralysis unharmed...