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Said Neville: "Almost everywhere you go, there's an unpredictable kind of water shortage, and you have to adjust your living to it. In Hong Kong the water came on for five hours a day, some in the morning, some at noon, a little more at night. In New Delhi, the government has requisitioned practically all housing, and what's left doesn't fit the Western idea of home. When James Burke got there, he rented a house way out in Old Delhi and had to put in his own bathroom." Inflation has boosted rents almost everywhere...
...base at Munsan, where a mobile surgical hospital had been erected; the walking patients went by ambulance. The first man to reach Munsan was Pfc. Robert Stell, a Baltimore Negro. General Mark Clark, who was waiting at Munsan to greet the returnees, saluted Stell and made a move to adjust his robe, but a medic beat the general to it. After medical and intelligence processing, the men were offered cigarettes, Cokes, milk shakes, steak. Some found steak too rich for them...
...haven't realized that our parents feared we would all be killed by automobiles. We're going to have to face the facts that our children will adjust themselves to television better than we can. Maybe a mother's next worry will be what happens to her daughter when she flies to Paris for the weekend...
...marital career for a Hearst reporter in Manhattan. Of husband No. 1, Robert John Herwig, a football coach, she said: "While Bob was overseas, Forever Amber was published . . . During the next year I received $1,000,000 in royalties ... It is to his credit that he was unable to adjust himself comfortably to his wife suddenly making $1,000,000." Husband No. 2, Bandleader Artie Shaw, was "an unhappy mistake from the very beginning ... I was working on Star Money, my second book, and Artie was working on a book of his own. He said this had been a lifelong...
They never got there. Edward Almquist, the last boy in line, bent over to adjust his skis, heard a sound like "rumbling drums," glanced up, and saw the smoking, tumbling white front of an avalanche racing down upon them. He yelled, fled, fell. When he got up, the mountains were silent again. Keith Jacobsen and the second boy, Larry Schinke, had vanished. Survivor Almquist started the 4½ miles back to the pass. He broke one ski. But he plunged fearfully on, waded along the Snoqualmie River until he found a familiar landmark, then took off through the snow again...