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...Freakish Weather. It was Switzerland's worst single avalanche disaster since 1749, and one of the latest in a series of giant slides that have already made many of Europe's towering mountain ranges more perilous this winter than at any time since World War II. More than 100 persons have been killed by falling snow in France, Switzerland, Italy and Austria...
...Freakish weather conditions throughout Alpine Europe have been responsible for most of the slides. Since early February, nearly 200 inches of new snow have fallen on some parts of the Alps, and intermittent thaws have loosened its grip in many places. Blizzards have also caused sliding; the sound of the avalanche at Reckingen, for example, could not even be heard above the shriek of 70-m.p.h. winds. Avalanche warnings have been common all winter, especially in Switzerland, which has the world's best detection facilities (see SCIENCE). Even so, few residents pay much attention to them. Says one expert...
...world are trying to better the record of 312 days set last month by Britain's Robin Kriox-Johnston. A onetime big-game hunter and whisky smuggler named John Fairfax is rowing a 22-ft. boat 3,300 miles from the Canary Islands to Florida. Honors for freakish firsts, though, must go to Aleksander Wozniak, a Polish exile and former R.A.F. fighter pilot, who fashioned a pair of 3-ft.-long, canoe-shaped shoes out of wood and walked 33 miles down the Thames from Marlow to Westminster Bridge...
...Many professors are convinced that next year's first-year class will be even harder to handle and satisfy than this year's bunch--although others have somehow convinced themselves that students who would disrupt than sanctity of the Law School with a study-in must be freakish and transient aberrations. The Committee majority report, although extremely tentative and minimally responsive to the student demands, makes clear that further reform is on the way. It recognizes that the proposals that will go to the faculty are only interim measures...
...imagined Harlem of the 1970s. There Pratt becomes inextricably involved with an anti-white Negro organization called the Horn Power Movement and its dynamic but tormented leader, George Horn Smith. Middleweight champion of the world, orator, professed illiterate and economic genius, Smith is a man possessed of a freakish protuberance-an eleven-inch horn jutting from his forehead...