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...Southwest, five lives have been claimed so far by the swift Colorado River, which is sluicing over dikes, sandbag barriers and splashboards. William Wert was on a raft excursion with 14 other vacationers shooting the Grand Canyon's Crystal Rapids when the 33-ft. rubber raft flipped; all passengers except Wert made it to shore. Farther downstream on the 1,450-mile river, in Mexico, four people drowned. "We cannot blame the Americans," said Francisco Gonzales, deputy police chief of the town of Luis B. Sanchez. "They did not make the rain and snow that are causing the river...
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...
...retirement benefits for elderly workers. To encourage firms to sign up teenagers, the government will pay $28 for every employee under 18 who earns $74 a week or less. The proposals were immediately dismissed by opposition Labor Party leaders as trying to "stem a flood tide with a sandbag...
Rosalynn met her husband at the helipad when he arrived in Plains. When he told her the grim news, she was incredulous. She spent the rest of the morning fighting to maintain control, looking as if she had been hit in the stomach with a sandbag. On the flight to Washington after voting in Plains, they were finally alone in their forward cabin. They broke down together and cried...
...dissemble and distort to provoke them, to make it impossible for them to sit there neutrally." He succeeds. The class bubbles on about a Flannery O'Connor story, oblivious to a bright spring morning outside and even to the end-of-class buzzer. "I don't sandbag or bluff them," says Wise. "I try to challenge them...