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...been the main arena of struggle between those promoting Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution and those opposing it. Cantonese wall posters and the tales of travelers coming out to nearby Hong Kong have painted a lurid portrait of a city racked by the clash of armies and awash in internecine blood...
...pegged at 12.1 ft., on the fifth day of rain crested at 18.8 ft. at Fairbanks. The downtown shopping district was deluged. By Mayor H. A. ("Red") Boucher's count, 75% of the city's businesses took major damage. Virtually every building in the city was awash. Volunteers sandbagged St. Joseph's Hospital until patients could be evacuated. The Alaska-67 exposition, celebrating the centennial of the territory's purchase, was severely damaged...
...commodity to be leased to all takers, by hour, day or week for the purpose of manipulating a gullible public. When the country is burdened with an apple surplus, the Agriculture Ministry hires the singer to munch a choice pippin on the telly; soon, everybody's awash in applesauce. The clergy wants to push God? Jones, in a mod getup vaguely suggesting the Blood of the Lamb, sings Jesus songs to a screaming multitude. Eventually he gets a kind of religion himself. To a crowd of dignitaries assembled to pay him homage, he mumbles "I hate you," and vanishes...
...taller and 5½ lbs. heavier than Griffith. He had solid credentials: an Olympic welterweight championship in 1960, only one loss in 192 amateur and professional bouts. And he also had the crowd. Madison Square Garden was awash with Italian flags and posters pleading DAGLIELA ALLA PANZZA! (Freely: Paste him in the belly!) But Griffith, 29, was the tough ex-street fighter from the Virgin Islands who had killed Benny Paret in the ring, won the welterweight championship three times before taking the middleweight title from Nigeria's Dick Tiger last year. On the strength of that...
...apparent that what Chagall had conceived was not so much background scenery but foreground commentary, much of it highly personal. The curtain opened on a great swirling storm of colors, which, as the massive backdrops rose and fell through 16 scenes, rolled across the footlights in rainbow waves. And awash in it all were the familiar Chagall symbols: floating maidens, topsy-turvy trees, horned animals, bursting suns and moons, and all manner of creepy crawlers and little winged things...