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...November showdown. The leaders of the National Unity Campaign--Michigan division for Rep. John B. Anderson (R-III.)--insist that it was only a coincidence that they opened their Detroit headquarters last Saturday, two days before their former bedmates hit town and just in time to absorb the overflow of media coverage seeping through the walls of Cobo Hall...
...Outraged by his lieutenant's disloyalty, Begin tartly recalled that Weizman had once admitted his own worst enemy was his "big mouth" and accused him of trying "to depose me-both openly as well as by intrigue." Concluded Weizman: "This whole affair has got out of hand with overflow and overkill...
...squeezed out of a tube. It will push through the vents in the "plug" of debris within the volcano's throat and emerge as lava. When it is finally exposed to the air, the lava will harden rapidly; it will probably not have enough volume or velocity to overflow the volcano's rim. Instead, as it solidifies, it will likely form a dome or cap over the vents. Eventually the dome should become massive enough to plug up the volcano like a cork in a bottle. But the corking process may be interrupted by repeated explosions, as pressure...
...Florida is already beginning to overflow. Another huge reception center at Fort Chaffee in Arkansas began accepting refugees at week's end. It was preparing for up to 20,000. The experience will not be new for the Army base; it handled some 50,000 Vietnamese refugees in 1975. In case Fort Chaffee also proves insufficient, New Jersey's Fort Dix is next on the list to handle the arrival of even more Cubans...
...weekend began with a bad omen as the tracksters travelled down to Penn a day early for Friday night's qualifying trials--promptly cancelled without the anticipated overflow expected for the meet--and the restless Crimson had to spend an unnecessary 24 hours in Philly. W.C. Fields would have been sympathetic...