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...dangerously brittle, collapsed regularly, requiring extra bracing for the tunnel roof; cascades of underground water often streamed into the tunnel, almost drowning drillers under subterranean waterfalls. The French, plagued by fewer engineering difficulties but disrupted by three months of labor strikes, hinted darkly that the Italians got to the halfway mark first by drilling a narrower tunnel in the final weeks. The Italians insisted they had done so only because of crumbling rock; the Rome press was quick to claim victory in the tunneling contest...
...tropical gardens, crystal chandeliers, shops, beauty salons and underground parking, and the city's Cabana Motor Hotel's new addition will treat its guests to copies of French provincial furniture, $140 bedspreads, a glass elevator-and split-level rooms. And at the Inn of the Six Flags, halfway between Dallas and Fort Worth, there is not only steak-dinner room service and vibrating beds for travel-weary bones, but also a three-bedroom Acapulco Suite with its own private swimming pool, patio, and fulltime butler-all for $100 a night...
...more Europeans were getting out. With industry at a standstill, the U.S., working through church welfare agencies, was feeding one out of five Algerians. What saved Algeria from complete disintegration was a modicum of political maturity and an instinct for survival that made the rival forces at least halfway willing to explore compromises. Emerging from these maneuvers was the near certainty that Ahmed ben Bella, 45, would win his battle "to take over the destiny of Algeria...
...competing with others for members." Too often, says Berger, the minister's flock seeks merely "edifying oratory, the competent performance of certain vaguely understood ceremonies, the exercise of moral influence upon the young, personal counseling especially in times of crisis, and last but not least, the halfway plausible exhibition of a morally exemplary life which one cannot seriously emulate but with which one can vicariously identify...
...Long Island Marathon. Hoping to add to his long string of racing successes (Moppies won the 1961 Marathon, the last three Miami-Nassau powerboat races), Bertram was shooting for a new Marathon record of 5 hr. 45 min. when one of his twin 310-h.p. MerCruiser outdrive engines failed halfway around. Eventual winner in the handicap race: August Nigel's 17-ft. outboard-powered runabout, at an average speed of 33 m.p.h. for the trip...