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Fifty-four anxious hours later, the rest of the party, toiling upward to what they feared would at best be rescue and at worst disaster, heard a voice, "pain-racked and almost sobbing," faintly calling "Help! Help! Help...
Some optical ghosts are common: the ordinary mirages which nearly everyone has seen. Commonest of all is "water-in-the-road," which is caused by a thin layer of warm air above sun-heated pavement. The two layers (cold and dense above, hot and less dense below) "refract"* upward the light that reaches them from the distant sky. A motorist sees shining water (really sky) lying in the road. In hot deserts this sort of mirage is extremely deceptive...
...grins. Said Eaton: "None of these is any good for Forest Lawn. You'll notice all these paintings, even the smiling ones, have a kind of sad look and a definitely European face. Now, what I'm looking for is a Christ filled with radiance and looking upward with an inner light of joy and hope. I want an American-faced Christ...
...unemployed Air Force veteran named Joseph Saccomano climbed to the belfry of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in The Bronx, and balanced there for an hour threatening to commit suicide. He ignored the pleas of priests, police and relatives. Then a photographer named Vincent Riccio looked upward and bellowed: "You're a chicken-livered, yellow phony . . . come on down and fight!" Snorting with rage, the would-be suicide scrambled down, was grabbed by the cops and toted off to have his head examined...
...some spots the water forced its way under the levees and burst upward in erupting "sand boils." Emergency crews hurriedly closed them off and smothered them with sandbags. It was exhausting, unrelenting, muddy toil, organized with a precision and teamwork learned from years of hard experience...