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...dam then broke soon after the ten-minute mark, as left inside Ann Ballen, also a returnee from last year's 3-1-1 squad, scored three goals within five minutes...
Attempting to maintain the appear ance of business as usual, Agnew gamely followed a schedule last week that was all too usual for Vice Presidents: the dedication of a new dam in Littleton, Colo, (where he was welcomed by some hostile demonstrators) and a speech at the AFL-CIO Boilermakers convention in Denver. "Just as each citizen has a right to criticize those in public office," he told the union members, "so does every public official have a right to defend his actions, his honor, his integrity and his good name." Agnew was speaking of Nixon's efforts...
...Penny Tweedy has a breeding theory based on the belief that every horse, male or female, has some defects; the trick is to cross bloodlines so that the dam's virtues cancel out the sire's flaws and vice versa. According to this theory, she had the ideal mate for Bold Ruler-a mare called Somethingroyal, daughter of a very different kind of sire named Princequillo...
...federal bureaucracy and even the Congress feel, at least for the time being, a certain release from political fear. The instrument of oppression has been dismantled. Its size and pervasiveness were sensed but could never be accurately documented until the Watergate dam broke. Now the city is being flooded with stories of an arrogant and ignorant White House cadre that amassed and abused power...
...ANGARA VALLEY, north of the old caravan-crossroads city of Irkutsk, is being opened up through dams on the Angara and Yenisei rivers. Nearby will be smelters, wood industries and chemical factories. The Russians' pride is the $1 billion Bratsk Dam, which was completed in 1964 after ten years of hardship and which contains as much masonry as the Great Pyramid of Cheops. "That was our October," says one veteran, using the image of the Russian Revolution to describe the days when construction workers lived in tents at temperatures of 60° below zero. Today the effort is being...