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...third day, July 27, it started raining in Tulsa. It rained all afternoon. Rain fell faster than gutters and sewers could carry the water away. No deaths or serious injuries resulted from the flood, but property damage was extensive. Pavements buckled. Cars stalled in puddles. The goldfish pond at the zoo overflowed and all the fish disappeared. Hundreds of telephones went dead, 200 homes were evacuated. Rescue teams moved along city streets in rowboats...
...sale: house on 6 acres wdlnd, stream, pond in Peekskill, N.Y.; furn comb air cond & heat; bit 1959 by Owner Jackie Gleason for $650,000, now avlbl because "my work has me bouncing around too much, pal"; includes 400-rcrd hi fi, grnd piano, elec organ, sht wv, lng wv, FM radios, many TV sets, 60-ft TV-radio antenna tower, rnd bthtub-shwr, 8-ft diamtr rnd bed with rnd sheets & rnd blnkts, 2 rnd bars (1 professional-sized), rnd card rm, pool tbl, and comfrtbl 7½-rm house near by for living...
Jason and the Argonauts. The reflecting surface of the fish pond in Zeus's palace on Mount Olympus is a sort of giant-screen TV that brings in news shows from all over the Aegean. Zeus and Hera, who are just folks, watch it so much that they must surely have to keep a six-pack of nectar and a frozen ambrosia dinner close at hand. But in stead of astronauts they see Argonauts -a bearded body builder named Jason (Todd Armstrong) and his adventure-prone shipmates aboard the Argo...
...between levels will be by elevators, escalators or stairs enclosed in glass kiosks. At the north end, two cantilevered buildings rise to break the otherwise static skyline; at the south end, a series of terraced "hanging gardens" descend from the grade to Panther Hollow Lake, a boating and skating pond below. The whole has been described as a 150-story building "resting on its side...
...crusty, klaxon-voiced sea dog who as Britain's Mediterranean commander in chief in World War II sank the pride of the Italian navy at Taranto and Cape Matapan, blocking Rommel's supply route and turning Mussolini's vaunted Mare Nostrum into "Cunningham's Pond"; of a heart attack; in London...