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...weekend in the West Virginia mountains, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, 55, paused along the Cacapon River, fell into conversation with Douglas Dolan, a postmaster who owns property there. Suddenly a shout went up that two of Dolan's nieces, Deborah, 12, and Nancy, 21, were being swept downstream by the rain-swollen current. The Secretary stripped to his shorts, plunged into the river, overtook the girls and held them steady in the swirling water until a motorboat could get to them. "I was about to go under for the last time," said Debbie, "and Nancy...
...miniaturized terraces redolent of tangerines and tea. A bone-rattling bus ride from Nagoya can put a harried city dweller aboard a boat on the Gifu River, where-with a giant bottle of sake and the boon companionship of a river geisha-he can watch the cormorant fisherman sweep downstream...
...naufrage-that shipwreck." Still steaming along, Charles de Gaulle celebrated his 76th birthday. Or rather, he did not celebrate it. Since he loathes being reminded of the passing years, De Gaulle observed the occasion simply with a hard day's work at the office. A few birthdays downstream, former U.S. Vice President John Nance Garner is well past worrying about getting old. He really did celebrate his 98th birthday as more than 100 friends and neighbors turned up to wish him well at his house in Uvalde, Texas. "When you get to be my age," smiled Cactus Jack...
Thanks to fortunate topography, the river will be diverted through a series of small lakes and dikes to a point 22 miles downstream, then dumped 1,040 ft. into a power station buried in solid rock. Above it will rise a new lake one-third the size of Lake Ontario...
...referred to himself as "spokesman for an older sister who, like Moses' sibling, 'stood at a distance' to see what would happen when the baby was found among the reeds." The conclusion of the simile drew a laugh when Pusey said that now, "The Institute no longer seems far downstream, and the baby institution--that's you-- is obviously doing very well...