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Larry Terrell beat Scott Rogers at number four with a 6-3, 6-8, 6-4 score, and number five Bill Washauer defeated Rick Weir with an extraordinary comeback, 4-6, 9-7, 6-2. Fully-recuperated Chris Nielsen had little trouble in the sixth spot against Andy Krusen...
Recuperated John Nielson should fight well against Rick Weir at number...
Fighting for Life. Elaborate engineering works built over decades were disdainfully brushed aside by the rampaging Rio Grande-which is known to Mexicans as Rio Bravo, the Wild River. Flicking away a heavy, 200-ft. weir at the junction of a main emergency floodway and a small subordinate channel, the 44.3-ft. tide poured into Mercedes and Harlingen, where a Spanish-speaking radio station ominously warned: "Get the lame, blind and old people to high land." But there is no high land in Harlingen (pop. 41,100), a citrus-market city 36 ft. above sea level, and the pitifully inadequate...
...hospital was evacuated. A quarter of Harlingen's population was taken to higher ground in outlying areas. Upstream at Mercedes (pop. 10,081), frantic crews dumped twelve-ton bales of car bodies into the gap at the broken weir, but the arroyo swallowed everything with hardly a gulp, and downstream the tide climbed inexorably. Then liquid fingers poked through a levee north of Harlingen, sending a second spearhead of water toward the heart of town. Surrounded, isolated, exhausted, Harlingen was engulfed...
...Hallucinogenic" or "psychedelic" (literally, "mind-manifesting") drugs come in three groups. The mild ones are morning-glory seeds, nutmeg and marijuana. The moderately potent ones are the mescaline of Weir Mitchell's experiment, psilocybin (derived from the Mexican Indians' "sacred mushroom"), bufotenine (a constituent of Amanita muscaria), and dimethyltryptamine (found in cohoba). By itself on the third level is LSD. It has 100 times the potency of psilocybin and 7,000 times that of mescaline, which is itself considerably more powerful than marijuana...