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...lake, with their own beach and dock. His wife's optometry business is three blocks away; stores and schools are just as close. Says Ruhr: "There is a little less of the bad things here?drugs, pollution. Being way up here, people have had a chance to see the crest of the wave coming and react to it. There's an attitude, too, that we've got a nice little thing and let's keep it that...
Susan Sontag will probably never find her way into artistic significance. Not many people will read her books, and not many will watch her movies. But she has her function nonetheless. She is thinking all the time and she rides the crest of every new fashion; she is worth keeping an eye on. When the cultural wind shifts, she rustles in the breeze...
...very competent military operation which had nothing to do with mountaineering," huffed Sir Edmund Hillary, who with Tenzing Norgay had raised the British flag on the summit. Hillary, who devotes himself to building schools for Nepali Sherpa children in the Everest region, said he hoped the crest would be left to small parties of climbers. "It's now reached the height of the ridiculous...
...sooner did the President end his speech with a blessing for America, the Watergate affair started to crest again. Only hours after Nixon told the American people that John D. Ehrlichman was one of "the finest public servants," an FBI memorandum revealed that Ehrlichman had hired convicted Watergate conspirators G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt to investigate the leaks that led to the release of the Pentagon Papers...
...Mississippi's highest waters bore down on Memphis and points south, the levee system was holding up well, but the danger remained. "What concerns us," said a spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers in Vicksburg, Miss., "is that this is a long, slow crest. The odds against being spared heavy April rains go up every day. We are hoping that we can get through the next couple of weeks without a big downpour." That hope seemed dashed early last weekend as rains began to pelt parts of the lower river valley and flash flood warnings went...