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...bottleneck was at the Alton (Ill.) lock, just below the point where the Illinois River, fed in part from Lake Michigan by way of the man-made Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, joins the sluggish Mississippi in its 2,350-mile sweep to the Gulf. There, as many as 200 Chicago-bound barges were stalled at one time this fall as the water in the lower sill, diminished by the four-year drought in the Mississippi Valley (TIME, Dec. 17), fell from its normal (9 ft.) level to a bottom-scraping 6 ft., thus forcing the carriers to lighten their...
...opposed only by Wisconsin among the Great Lakers: a temporary (through Jan. 31) increase to 8,500 cu. ft. a second. The effects were magical. Within hours, twelve oil barges started northward from New Orleans, and by week's end, as Army engineers opened the Chicago and inland locks in easy stages, the jam-up at Alton lock was well on its way to being eased...
...length. Said a Hungarian friend, who arrived in the U.S. in 1948: "It takes about two years to realize what America is like. Not the things you can buy, but the things you can say. I can say something about President Eisenhower, and nobody will lock me up. Felix, he is just like a monkey put in a box and released somewhere in Alaska...
...time governor of Massachusetts, wrote in his journal: "I judge that Longfellow has not suffered enough to be a great poet." Less than three years later, if he remembered it, the entry must have made him uneasy. On July 9, 1861 Fanny was sealing a package that contained a lock of one of her children's hair. Her sleeve caught fire, and in a moment her light summer dress became a sheath of flame. Trying to save her, Longfellow was himself seriously burned. The next day Fanny Longfellow was dead, and from then on Henry's quota...
...contrast to her Harvard counterpart, the Radcliffe girl cannot wander out of her dorm when she feels like it. To stay out of the dorm later than 10 p.m., when the doors lock, the Cliffe-dweller must register in the sign-book for all to see. Unlike some women's colleges, at Radcliffe a girl does not have to sign the name of her date, but only her destination, with as little specificity as "Boston movies," "Square," or "Corner...