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...destruction that he saw as he rode by train across the muddy, logjammed Toutle River: "It was eerie, unreal, almost like looking at a graveyard in a London fog, with steam rising among the sheared trees and debris and only the sound of the train on the track." Susan Hobart, a reporter for Portland's Oregonian, added: "The living are not welcome here. The ground rejects you, trying to suck you into foot-deep mud. Chill winds knife into your spine. Ash floats in the air, killing your sense of smell. Every instinct, every emotion warns...
...Kuumba Singers, a group of undergraduate performers, are applying to private foundations for a grant to produce their first record by June, Hobart W. Harris '79, president of the group, said this week. It will cost $25,000 to produce the album, Harris said. "The problem we face which most other groups at Harvard don't is Kuumba's limited history. We don't have their alumni or their resources...
...JENNIFER HOBART...
...staying loyal to his clients, and on always sticking to his standard fee, $25 a day plus expenses--no more, no less. (That is, unless some old fogey with nothing better to do decided to get generous.) And he had a special prickly pride about his apartment at the Hobart Arms. The same tease mentioned above somehow manages to seduce a pass-key away from the super one night, comes in while Marlowe's gone and slips naked as Isis under his bedcovers. His reaction when he comes in says a lot about Marlowe. The woman offers herself...
...night in January 1975, the zinc-laden freighter Lake Illawarra plowed into the Tasman Bridge, killing twelve motorists and crewmen and severing the main link between Hobart, the capital of Australia's island state of Tasmania, and its eastern suburbs. Next morning, as some 30,000 suburbanites set out for work, they found that the former three-minute commute over the bridge had turned into a pilgrimage of an hour and a half at rush hours, requiring a detour of 33 miles...