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...Rutherford paced nervously around his room in Roseburg, Ore.'s Umpqua Hotel. Once he walked the three blocks to the Gerretsen Building Supply Co. to look over the blue 1959 Ford truck he had parked on the street after a 290-mile drive from his home plant, Pacific Powder Co. of Tenino, Wash.. Cause for his worry: his cargo consisted of two tons of dynamite and 4½ tons of Car-Prill (a highly explosive mixture-ammonium nitrate and oil) that he was to deliver to customers at dawn. About 1 a.m.. back in his hotel...
When these miraculous, necessary days came, the Fourth Republic's disintegrating government slapped a 24-hour-a-day police guard on Soustelle. Grinning as he displays his knowledge of underworld argot, Soustelle recalls: "I decided to take a powder." With the professional expertise of the old spy master, Soustelle slipped out of his Paris apartment hidden under a pile of luggage in a neighbor's car and crossed the border to Switzerland ("Of course, I had a false identity"). Two days later he was in Algiers, whipping up the crowd with shouts of "Vive De Gaulle!" and working...
...Argentina's Andean resort of San Carlos de Bariloche, snow came late this year, but when it finally fell, it was a skier's dream-3-ft. base. 2 in. of powder, and fresh snow at night to top it off. Last week the biggest crowds in history were strapping skis together in Buenos Aires and bracing themselves for a clattery two days on the train or six hours on a plane for their share of Christies. In Bolivia, young skiers jammed into the two lodges at the three-mile-high Chacaltaya ski area. But nowhere...
...friend, Long suffered what doctors called "slight heart failure," but recovered sufficiently to wolf a hearty dinner of roast beef, chicken and dumplings, corn, black-eyed peas, salad, beer, buttermilk and coffee. ¶ Raging at the wholesale desertion of his followers ("They're takin' a runout powder!"), Long began firing dozens of the unfaithful with the speed of a Cuban revolutionary tribunal. His worries increased when five other candidates, led by New Orleans' able Mayor deLesseps Morrison, announced their willingness to run for Governor against him. Meanwhile, federal Internal Revenue agents were winding up a full-scale...
...Malcolm Cowley started a living-room bonfire of books they didn't like, but full-bladdered e. e. cummings acted as a one-man fire department. There was the artists' ball at which Harold danced with a friend's wife, who was dressed in green powder and a black string...