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Shortly after 1 a.m., a churning mass of water 30 ft. high thundered down a Georgia valley toward the eleven houses, 25 trailer homes and various other buildings of Toccoa Falls Bible College. As the torrent surged through the campus last week, power lines fell and exploded in sparks, trailers were ripped from their moorings, automobiles floated away like fishermen's bobbers. In the basement of Forrest Hall, a 140-bed dormitory, 22-year-old Senior Bobby Carter had finished his nightly devotion, reading from II Corinthians, and was just falling asleep when his windowsill fan hurtled across...
...lift 6200 pounds." Norris remarks. "That's more than that car the publisher gave us. An extremely nice, gentle man." "And a great Christian--they say he signs his letters 'Yours in Christ.'" "Belongs to one of those Southern sects, he comes from Toccoa, Georgia." "I believe he won an Olympic medal...
...Denmark's Gunnar Nielsen in the stretch and clocked a neat 3:59 flat. He had it all timed so nicely that he pulled Nielsen past the four-minute barrier with him. Nielsen's time: 3:59.1. ¶ Bulge-upholstered Paul Anderson, the 325-lb. strongman from Toccoa, Ga., played around with the big bar bell at the National A.A.U.'s weight-lifting championships and casually picked a total of 1,175 Ibs. off the floor to set a new world record, broke two other marks in the process. Anderson's performance...
...first Russo-American athletic contest since the end of World War II gave six U.S. musclemen of assorted sizes a chance to flex their biceps for a friendly and admiring audience. Appropriately enough, it was Heavyweight Paul Anderson who made the biggest hit. The 22-year-old titan from Toccoa. Ga. looked for all the world like a living caricature of Humphrey Pennyworth, the comic-strip strongman. Here in the flesh was the giant of a capitalist fairy tale. Almost as wide as he is high (5 ft. 10 in., 340 Ibs.), Anderson toyed with the big bar bells...
Prospective flying missionaries can earn their way through a complete course at the LeTourneau-financed school by working in the LeTourneau earth-mover plant at Toccoa...