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...light up the cave. But the muddy walls soak up what little glow there is, so that you can see clearly for only a dozen feet ahead. And the little circle of light shows up only dark brown on the walls and yellow in the puddles of slime. Beyond that, it's just black...

Author: By George R. Merriam, | Title: Where Have The Explorers Gone? Today's Adventurer Craves A Cave | 11/3/1966 | See Source »

Sobbing Rescuer. In minutes, most of the school and 17 surrounding homes were buried deep under the silent, black slime. From nearby pits, miners rushed to the scene and tore at the debris with their hands, picks and shovels. Mothers struggled up to their waists in the mud and sludge, calling out for their children. Mrs. Pauline Evans, a 27-year-old housewife, climbed through a classroom window with a nurse and found a dozen children screaming in panic. "In another classroom, we could hear the voice of a little girl," she said. "But we could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Murderous Mountain | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

...know what black means in this country," he went on. "It means inferiority, it means slums, it means slime. But when this man said black and when I heard him say it, I felt like...

Author: By Robert A. Rafsky, | Title: The Movement Shifts from Churches to Bars | 10/3/1966 | See Source »

...Withal, Tahoe is a volcanic and glacial marvel, ringed for one-third of the year by snow-dazzling mountain tops. To Mark Twain, Tahoe was a "noble sheet of blue water." In the past decade, it has faintly but frighteningly threatened to become a vast dead sea of green slime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conservation: Keeping Tahoe Alive | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

...million supplemental request for economic aid to South Viet Nam. The problem could easily be resolved, Dirksen countered, by getting Mansfield to withdraw his motion to take up repeal of 14(b). "Is compulsory unionism more important than the young men who are slogging among the insects and the slime and the mud of Viet Nam?" asked Dirksen. "If Viet Nam is important, good. Then let the President come down to us and ask us to withdraw it. It is that simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Is Compulsory Unionism More Important Than Viet Nam? | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

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