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...Berserk Feather. Near the headwaters of California's two most important river systems, the Sacramento and the San Joaquin, great dams such as Shasta, Folsom, Friant and Pine Flat curbed angry water that might have caused infinitely more damage and death. At flood's height, more than 200,000 cubic feet of water a second poured into the reservoir back of the Sacramento's Shasta Dam, which shrank the downstream rush to only 16,000 cubic feet a second, saving the rich Sacramento Valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Visitor to California | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

...daughter (Lori Nelson), who has a tendency to the same high-flown appreciation of CinemaScopic nature as Shelley. "My!" Lori trills. "Isn't the air grand out here on the desert? And look at those stars -aren't they beautiful?" It is small wonder that Palance goes berserk at the film's end and gets himself shot down by a battalion of police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 28, 1955 | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

...hero this time is a ventriloquist whose twin dummies have gone berserk. Whenever one of the little monsters sees the girl his master is about to marry, he insults her. Desperate, Danny consults a psychoanalyst and promptly pratfalls in love with the psychoanalyst's colleague (Mai Zetterling). Meanwhile, he has stumbled into more serious trouble. An international spy ring has stashed the stolen plans of a secret weapon in the heads of the dummies, and when two spies are killed in Danny's hotel room, the alarm goes out for the "redheaded ripper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two Comedians | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

...better food and living conditions. That is what happens in Cell Block 11 of the unidentified prison in question. The convicts, led by a long-termer (Neville Brand), present their demands to a state mediator. He arrogantly rejects them. The riot explodes into other cell blocks. The prisoners run berserk in a thoroughly frightening scene of rage in the mass. In the end, the governor signs the prisoners' petition. The rioters disband. The pressure off, the state legislature repudiates the governor's act. Has anything been gained? A little, perhaps; on the other hand, 30 years have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 15, 1954 | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...spite of his penchant for farming gadgets, he managed to stay clear of the vast machinery that runs Harvard until this year, when the I.B.M. machines went berserk and for weeks he had no list of the students in his course with which to draw up sections. But there is always the daily consolation that he can leave Harvard Hall and the hustle of the University, stroll slowly across the Common into the shaded Quad and once more become responsible for an ordered island of 1000 women

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: Radcliffe's Jordan: 10 Years in Retrospect | 12/1/1953 | See Source »

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