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FORT WAYNE. When the Maumee, St. Marys and St. Joseph rivers flooded last March, 60,000 residents of this flat, industrial city took to the riverbanks, stacking sandbags at a rate of 25,000 an hour to contain most of the overflow. Even Ronald Reagan joined the sandbag brigade for a while. The effort curtailed the severity of the flood and captured the imagination of the country. Fort Wayne (pop. 172,000) became known as "the city that saved itself...
...disorganized King Paramount learn the English version of monarchy. Traipsing around on stage with him are the highly malleable citizens of Utopia, two sycophantic advisors, six stereotypic Englishmen, and three slightly dizzy princesses, the eldest of whom has just returned from finishing school in England. Most of the characters overflow with superfluous emotions that only serve to complicate the already too-intricate plot...
Neighborhood groups had hoped that the state board would establish an expansion overflow committee composed of equal numbers of hospital officials and area residents that the council "felt that it wouldn't he appropriate to give the area group vote power," council member Stephen Sauter said yesterday...
...freshmen are run through the Housing lottery each year, the University funnels data on each House and its accommodations through the Collier formula to set quotas on how many of the 1000 overflow students each House can take. What Hershbach contends--and what previous studies have determined--is that the formula fails to account for some of the differences in physical attributes among the Houses, resulting in excessive crowding in some Houses and more comfortable situations in others...
...either a bold bid for peace or aclever propaganda ploy. Shadowed by bodyguards in the venerable Mexico City Foreign Correspondents Club, Guillermo Manuel Ungo, 51, president of El Salvador's Democratic Revolutionary Front (F.D.R.), a leftist political alliance that boycotted last March's elections, faced an overflow audience. Alongside was Ana Guadalupe Martínez, a representative of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), the Marxist-led organization that unites the country's five guerrilla factions. Ungo and Martínez announced that their groups had offered to begin unconditional direct negotiations with the Salvadoran government...