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...casts (his friends say that he can put his fly into a sugar bowl at 30 paces), there was a resounding splash and his rod bent double. He played the fighting rainbow and pulled out a three-pounder-middling by Silver Creek standards. Then he caught eight more. Up & downstream from him, oblivious to buzzing mosquitoes, were ardent anglers who had camped there all night, so that they could start fishing...
...miles along the Columbia's lower reaches, families fled their homes. Under the water's relentless weight, dikes became soggy, began to leak in small treacherous rivulets. Downstream from Portland, the dike protecting Woodland (Wash.) broke. Four days later the river cracked the Johns Dike at Clatskenie. At Portland, the backed-up waters of the Willamette River topped the retaining walls, flooded the railroad station and the airport. Trucks and bulldozers worked night & day; troops and volunteers sandbagged every damp spot...
...days. They voted Anne Whates, a dark, buxom history student at Lady Margaret Hall, the girl for whom they would most willingly jump into the river. One day last week, dressed for her part in a straw boater and a Japanese sunshade, the new Zuleika was punted downstream in a chilling rain. Of the 100 voters, only nine braved the river, but three jumped with such abandon that Zuleika beckoned for an encore. (Said she: ''My heart bleeds for those unfortunate men, but . . .") Crying "The Lady calls" through chattering teeth, the nine jumped once more, later were succored...
Last week, with the ice gone at last from the flat water downstream, ships of many nations furrowed the glacier-carved Saguenay. Inbound, most of them carried cargoes of orange-colored bauxite (aluminum ore) from British Guiana. A few were laden to the Plimsoll mark with cryolite from Greenland, fluorspar from Newfoundland, pitch and coke from the U.S. At Port Alfred on Ha! Ha! Bay,? fine ores were loaded into railroad cars for a 20-mile journey beyond the deep water. The freighters were reloaded with aluminum, in ingots or billets, for the industry of Canada and foreign lands...
...downstream for the start of the last heat of the afternoon, Winthrop's stroke "Dunc" McCollester broke his oar in a fit of youthful exhuberance, delaying the race till the late supper hour. It proved to be an ill omen for hapless Dudley's octet, which chopped its way past the white flag roughly a minute after Winthrop...