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...mood for deals--when Carter transportation secretary Neal Goldsmith announces that "compromise unity language is circulating on the floor," they boo. When Carter consumer affair representative Esther Peterson ends her defense of the Georgia presidency by yelling "Four more years," there are enough jeers to positively melt the heart of Rep. John B. Anderson (R-Ill.). And so, by the time Rep. Barbara McClusky (D-Md.) introduces Kennedy, they are ready. The orchestra plays "Macnamara's Band," the blue-and-white placards begin to wave, and the "magnificent example of grace, courage and valor" strides out on stage...
...feeling from his statistics the frustration of farmers who must plant crops while anticipating that they will lose money, or hearing in the charts the grumblings of businessmen as customers melt away, is what being President is all about...
...police, who has witnessed the last 30 Commencements, lends perspective to this intangible double-life: "Every one is just as great as the next, but every one is a little different from the last." And today will probably bear out Walsh's maxim; the legacies of the past will melt together with the particular character of 1980. With the help of the Happy Committee, of course...
...gods; today's scientists have a more modern theory. It is generally believed that the giant, continent-size plates forming the earth's outer shell crunch together in certain places, such as along the Ring of Fire. On plate slips under, heats up and begins to melt. This molten material, or magma, is lighter than neighboring and slowly rises, often triggering earth tremors. Eventually the magma may break through the surface as lava. In some cases, like that of Mount St. Helens, the magma remains in pools under the mountain, but still releases enough heat to cause explosive...
...week's end no lava had appeared, although there was still that possibility. There was another danger: the heat of the volcano might melt the 16-ft. snow cover on the mountain, flooding streams and causing massive mud slides. As a precaution, water levels in three reservoirs on the nearby Lewis River were lowered. Meanwhile, scientists and residents kept watching anxiously to see just how angry Mount St. Helens would get. Said Kurt Austermann of the U.S. Forest Service: "We don't want to panic anybody, but nobody really knows whether it's going to start spitting...