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...office employees earn 3.5% less than industrial workers (a mailman averages $30 weekly), but Postmaster General Reginald Bevins flatly refused an increase, offered only to study the subject. To make up for the slowdown, he ordered postal employees to work overtime, but it was like trying to melt a glacier. At Mount Pleasant. London's main sorting office, the backlog rose to 5,000,000 letters. Railway stations were swamped: in one shed alone at Euston. 100,000 mailbags waited four days to be picked up. The post office announced that it could not handle parcel post (except...
...brink of Glacier 511, below the peak of Peru's highest (22,205 ft.) mountain, a block of ice the size of two Empire State Buildings had broken loose with an explosive crack and plunged down the mountainside into a funnel-like canyon above a cluster of eight villages around Ranrahirca (pop. 2,456, according to last July's census). As it tumbled, the ice mass smashed into house-sized chunks, knocked loose millions of tons of boulders and mud, and grew into one of the endless huaycos (landslides) that make life on Peru...
...took the avalanche eight minutes to travel the twelve miles from the face of Glacier 511 to Ranrahirca. Then, like an unrolling carpet, 1½ miles wide and as much as 40 ft. thick, it blotted out the red-tiled roofs, orchards and unpaved streets of the town and its neighboring (villages. "I don't know why I didn't go mad," said Ranrahirca's Mayor Alfonso Caballero, pointing to the plain of mud and ice that covered his town. "That is where our cathedral used to be. It was our tallest building...
...group--all five together again--held fast for the next two days in biting cold and abandoned plans for reaching the summit. The group waited for a clear day, July 12, and descended to the relative warmth of the glacier (20 degrees the first night. One local report called the storm the worst in 25 years at Logan...
...Unless means are found to arrest or reverse the aging process." says Frey, "we may have to depend on the arrival of another glacier to produce a fresh crop...