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Whirlybird Rescue. Hardest hit of all Europe, however, were the valleys of Switzerland and Austria, where only a month ago hotelkeepers, hoping for good ski weather, had despaired of the unseasonable warmth. There, the choking Staublawinen (dust avalanches), which literally drown their victims in a rush of dry, powdery snow, and the hurtling Rutschlawinen (slide avalanches), which bury their victims under sliding tons of packed snow, ice and boulders, wrought fearful havoc...
...miles north of the equator, not far from where the Nile rises, the Mountains of the Moon face east towards a mighty lake that could drown the state of West Virginia. On the northern shore of Lake Victoria sits Kampala (pop. 22,000), the chief city of the British protectorate of Uganda and the ancient tribal capital of 1,300,000 Baganda tribesmen...
...Andrei Vishinsky got orders to go at the West again in the old, unbridled way, and the debating in Manhattan rang once more with the Russian words for "reactionary circles," "aggressive bloc," "drown in blood...
...Siamese temples, French cathedrals and New England general stores, at the bottom of the Grand Canyon and at the top of the Empire State Building, the U.S. amateur photographer pursues his hobby. His camera's combined clicks (he is taking nearly 2 billion pictures this year) would drown the loudest thunder, and the combined light from his flashbulbs (he is using 500 million) would make a major planet pale. The sun to him is chiefly a source of light that often calls for a yellow filter, and the moon merely an object which it is hard to photograph without...
...crusader for more women in good political jobs. At the national convention in Chicago last year, she berated the restive delegates for being "extremely rude" to speakers, and then she seized the chairman's gavel and banged the hall into silence when the buzz of conversation began to drown out her own speech. Some Democrats had a name for indomitable India: "The Tugboat Annie of politics...