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Free Confetti. Welcome signs appeared in store windows. Fifth Avenue lampposts sprouted clusters of U.S. flags, flanked by the New York City crest and the Legion colors. The Salvation Army donated four donutmobiles. A gum company provided 60 million wrappers to be used as confetti...
...Louis had escaped serious damage as the highest Mississippi flood crest in 103 years swept by (TIME, July 7). But south of St. Louis the little waterfront towns waited, fought the flood and passed the word downriver to towns like Grand Tower...
...days, people in St. Louis watched the flood-swollen Mississippi inch up on the levees. One night this week, the flood reached its awesome crest. Under steady pressure from weeks of rain throughout its vast basin, the Mississippi rose to its highest point in 103 years (39.3 feet), spilled into the city's grimy riverfront sections. Then, while hundreds of civilians and troops feverishly sandbagged key levees on the East St. Louis side, one of the sharpest earthquakes in St. Louis history rocked buildings, felled chimneys and split sidewalks...
Centuries ago Suwon was a feudal city of Korea's kings. To keep out the marching feet of warlike neighbors, the kings surrounded it with a massive wall which ran crazily along the crest of the encircling hills. My guides were telling me a dreamy tale of how one king kept his pretty women in a palace over there and his plain women in a palace over on this side. Why he did this I never learned, for just then came a sound that I had learned too well -feet marching in military cadence to a martial song...
Last week he was riding the crest of popularity. For the first time since he entered the White House, he was consistently able to attract strong men to his Administration (General George Marshall, W. Averell Harriman, Lewis Douglas, et al.). No one could accuse him of using ambassadorships to pay off political debts...