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Down Through Snow. The Beechcraft dipped and fell, slid heavily into a steep mountainside, shearing off the starboard engine and wing. As flames lashed at the cabin, the LeMasuriers scrambled to safety, narrowly escaped the exploding fuel tanks. Then a rainstorm squall broke and put out the fire. Although they did not know it, the LeMasuriers had crashed only a mile upslope from a sheepherder's camp on Ferris Mountain (9,500 ft.), 40 miles north of Rawlins...
...century pals at Cambridge. Gerry is the gracious son of an earl and Peter is a steely-eyed child of fortune. Peter does his first serious social climbing on a Swiss Alp when he seduces Gerry's well-heeled, well-built girl friend Emily on "the steep slope above the Zmuttbach.'' Married and shortly in receipt of Gerry's gentlemanly blessing ("the best man won"), the couple head for the Punjab and Peter's civil-service duties...
...spite of some weakness in organization, Damn Yankees is by far the best musical that Boston has seen in a long time. And if the prices seem a little steep, the show makes enough noise so that peanut heaven at the Shubert isn't half...
Missing Assembly Line. Why, amid the ups and downs of other goods, do non-goods prices creep steadily upward? Partly because they are still catching up with the steep rises of food and manufactured-goods prices in 1945-52. But partly-and more significantly, in a long-range view-because productivity rises more slowly in the service field than in manufacturing. The assembly line is missing, the possibilities of automation scant; machinery can do little to speed up the output of the barber, the bartender, the cop, or the bureaucrat. Yet, in order to hold workers in a period...
FLOOD-INSURANCE RATES for homeowners will range from $1 to $12 per $100 of coverage when program gets rolling this summer, says Flood Insurance Commissioner Frank J. Meistrell. But insurancemen say that average rate of $5, or $500 for maximum $10,000 coverage on a residence, would be too steep for typical homeowner...