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Like the heroic little Dutch boy, college administrators are trying to stop a flood by putting their fingers in a dike. Ever-increasing numbers of secondary school students are submitting ever greater numbers of applications to two, three, or eight different colleges, thus creating the massive Problem of Multiple Applications...
...Kitimat. The work was spread over an area bigger than the state of Massachusetts. Deep in the Canadian Rockies, 400 miles north of Vancouver, Alcan harnessed a chain of mountain lakes and eastward-flowing rivers by throwing one of the world's biggest dams - a 317-ft. dike of rock and clay-across a canyon to create a great reservoir in the hills. Then Alcan drillers drove a ten-mile tunnel through the rock to sluice the water down the west side of the mountains. Falling 2,600 ft.-15 times the height of Niagara Falls-the water spins...
...Geus was a good doctor, but he also earned the reputation of being crazy. When he came bouncing onto the dike-enclosed farming island on a motorcycle, to replace the old doctor who had died, the poor peasants refused to take him seriously. Short, bald, muscular and hairy-chested, he looked like a good-natured, grinning ape. Unlike his dapper predecessor, he wore the wooden shoes and coarse clothing of his patients. He cursed, he got into fist fights, and he loved his gin. When he showed up to deliver a baby on his first case, he even...
...Grande crested some 150 miles away at the trans-river cities of Eagle Pass and Piedras Negras. Forewarned, the Texans of Eagle Pass had moved out to watch in safety as their homes were flooded. Across the river, the Mexicans of Piedras Negras placed their faith in an earthen dike; they were huddled in their straw-thatched adobe homes when the dike collapsed and the Rio Grande swept over. "I heard hundreds crying for help in the dark,'' said one witness. "You could hear houses collapsing, then screams, then nothing." More than half the town was destroyed...
Layer Cakes. Ernst Graeber is a simple German foot soldier with both hands in the crumbling dike of the Eastern Front in the spring of 1944. For Graeber and his comrades, hell is not only the Russians but the stacks of German corpses emerging like an obscene layer cake from the melting snows, January casualties on top, October casualties on the bottom. When the Russians begin hitting his sector of the front with heavy artillery fire, Graeber is only too happy to snatch his first furlough in two years...