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Fashion freaks will soon see her in some fancy Vogue photographs by Richard Avedon. TV viewers, however, will catch Actress Deborah Raffin with her hair down and plastered top-to-toe in Mississippi mud. Raffin's dive was all for the sake of Nightmare in Badham County, a TV movie in which she plays a prison-farm escapee on the run through the swamps. Raffin, 23, who last starred in a Hollywood turkey overgenerously titled Once Is Not Enough, says the gooey assignment was "the best role" she had ever been offered: "It gave me a chance, I hope...
...farm in the fertile hills and valleys of KwaZulu, the designated "homeland" that forms a patchwork quilt of territory from the Mozambique border in the north to southern Natal and the Transkei in the south. There they live much in the tribal style of old, in beehive-shaped mud and thatch huts, sharing the kraal with their cattle. The other half work in the "white man's" South Africa, living in bedroom ghettos like Soweto. They are frequently favored for positions of trust in public service and industry...
...offset any damage caused by his divorce. To fight the Watergate tag, Dole imported Connecticut's G.O.P. Senator Lowell Weicker-a member of Sam Ervin's committee-to stump for him. His most effective device was a TV commercial that showed a poster being obliterated by slung mud; gradually the mess dropped away and Dole's handsome face emerged...
Flatlanders never have been able to understand mountain climbers, and not even mountain climbers understand the pale, mud-smeared troglodytes whose curious passion it is to worm their way down through the clammy dark into the deepest and narrowest capillaries of caves. These low adventurers are brave, but their squirmy feats seem inglorious. If, slithering downward, one of them carried a banner, its strange device might well read !IROISLECXE...
...Mud-Choked Fistulas. The Flint Ridge/Mammoth connection, which would establish the system as the longest known cave in the world, required techniques more organized and rigorous than Collins' lone adventuring. By the 1950s, when Brucker and Watson began caving, it was necessary to survey, with chain and compass, every foot of the miles of new cave then being discovered. Some of the finds were spacious passages and great, vaulted limestone halls, but far more often the explorers tried to keep their nerve intact and their carbide lamps lit while jammed into mud-choked fistulas less than a foot high...