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...huts of the town's 400 miners. When the tremors came, the dam gave way, and the thick, muddy waste exploded out across the valley, burying 200 people in seconds. One woman who saw it coming managed to scramble up a slope in time. "I could feel the muck spattering on my heels," she recalled later. "Behind me there was nothing left, absolutely nothing. Only silence...
...blimey, why carn't you Americans use English proper when yer wants ter be colloquial? Yer don't half muck us up. It took me rahnd abaht five minutes to find out what yer meant wiv "Things did not go half badly" in "Down the Middle" [March 19]. Eiver you says "Things did not half go badly" (viz: They did go badly) or, as in American English "Things didn't go top badly." Honest, I fink you'll find I'm right, 'cos I'm one of them British secretaries in New York...
...well be one of the most practical warplanes ever built. Its tail is high enough (13.7 ft.) and wide enough (20 ft.) to permit cargo trucks to back against the rear of its short fuselage. Jumping paratroopers have no clearance problem. On the ground, the plane can navigate through muck and mud by use of a steerable nosewheel, and it can be fitted out with pontoons for a water landing...
...rarely misses an opportunity to burnish that image. At week's end he took off from Washington on 30 minutes' notice to slog through the muck in hurricane-struck Florida and Georgia. He squeezed in some handshaking and speechmaking along the way, reassured homeowners that "as long as I'm President, when there is any need, I'll meet it." Within hours, he was back at the White House. "We have a job to do here," he tells visitors, "and we are going to try to do that first." And if he can squeeze...
...such masterpieces that they regularly cause crack-ups by gawking drivers on the nearby freeway. One is a 12-ft. gallows with the 13 steps and a hanging effigy, its neck snapped at a medically correct angle. Another is a dinosaur and pterodactyl combination well planted in the muck. Last week a 17-year-old high-schooler named Wayne Saxton finished his fifth dereliction - a mammoth Viking warrior standing almost 20 ft. high. "I like Vikings," said he, as if that explained everything...