Word: maelstrom
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...metamorphose into traffic cops of the maelstrom in the foul land--known as slaughter alley--during the day labor at desk jobs and are often doctors, lawyers, and school teachers. There's a Jekyll and Hyde element deeply ingrained in officiating. "I'm always surprised at the high-class people who go into it and stay with it," says Diehl. Officials are often "pillars of the community who no one questions," he says, "but put on a black and white shirt and they suddenly become suspect...
Smoke machines flood the stage with a primordial haze. Colored lights flash, and chain-mail costumes shine in the gloom. A guitar swoops through a sonic blizzard that might have been whipped up by Led Zeppelin. Whirling at the center of this musical maelstrom is a lanky, dark-haired lout. He shouts in a girlish tenor, drops his kimono, strips to hot pants and tosses roses to adoring teenyboppers...
...such a staying game would almost surely set off a political uproar, much as did Earl Warren's abortive effort to resign before Richard Nixon took office. "With these politicians looking for issues, it could become a maelstrom," says one court hand. "I'm dreading...
...nearby Daly City, hundreds of cliffside homes overlooking the Pacific slide into the sea. Most other frame dwellings remain standing, but their interiors are a maelstrom of flying dishes, bookshelves and wall hangings. Landslides block the northern end of the Golden Gate Bridge. The great span itself, although whipping like a giant snake, appears to be holding. The Bay Bridge, too, survives the initial battering, but its clogged approaches fall, bringing down hundreds of cars with them. In the Bay Area Rapid Transit System's 3.6-mile-long underwater link between San Francisco and Oakland, hundreds of commuters...
...spot with then Vice President Ford's office on Aug. 9, just 3½ hours before he became an aide to a President. The harassed Seidman, whose assistant Porter would be, welcomed him. "Great," said Seidman, and then the two of them were swept along in the maelstrom of the historic presidential power change...