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Because of its mucky consistency, the flood tide took about an hour to course through the valley, leaving behind a thick mantle of silt and slime that hampered rescue operations for days afterward. Viewed from the air, reported TIME Correspondent Art White, the hollow "looked like a black corrugated moonscape." All told, 1,500 houses were destroyed or damaged and 4,000 people left homeless. More important, 92 are known dead, and almost as many are still missing; over 1,100 were injured...
...mystery of 1968. His second, Mongo's Back in Town, was bought for $25,000 and turned into a TV movie that was shown last November. Like Johnson's others, Case Load-Maximum amply displays his ability to thread a meticulous plot line through the grit and slime of an urban netherworld where everyone has an angle too sharp for his own good...
...time, nostalgia will dim or even erase memories of assassinations, wars, racial hatred and student riots from its vision of the '60s, just as it has long since done away with the slime, the stench and the wanton slaughter of that noblest of human conflicts, World War I. Nostalgia is like Marie Antoinette, who commissioned the finest artists and architects of France to build eight picturesque peasant farms beside her Petit Trianon. They were perfect-right down to porcelain vases from Sevres used for milking the cows. Nostalgia selects only what is agreeable, and even that it distorts...
...Crimson's chances to equal last year's sixth-place finish seem slime. But the team will have an opportunity to rack up points tonight in the finals of the 50 free and 500 free. Cahalan was the 50-free champion in 1969 and is among the favorites tonight, while Steve Kranse will be a top contender in an exceptional 500 field...
...series of oil tanker leaks covers the Atlantic with shiny black slime. The sun is reflected off this surface, causing a tremendous heat wave in which the average temperature in Cambridge is 140 degrees. The Ad Hoc Committee on The Weather finds the heat to be a "social" and not an "academic" issue, and Harvard refuses to get involved until the Holyoke Center air conditioning fails. Meeting in emergency session, the Faculty votes to allow people to eat in the Faculty Club without coats and ties. After the meeting, George Wald calls reporters into his test tube to applaud...