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Triggered by moist tropical air, which the Pacific jet stream freakishly shot in from Hawaii over cool northern Califor nia, a tremendous downpour began at mid-month. The downfall deposited as much as 31.5 inches of rain by Dec. 26, melted Sierra snowpacks like a blowtorch, streamed off steep hillsides in the rugged redwood country. Swollen mountain streams burst out of the woods like furious brown snakes, swallowing topsoil and drowning animals. The Klamath, Russian, Mad, Eel, Ten Mile, Navarro and other rivers picked up speed, boiled out of gorges toward the Pacific, wrecked railroads and cut coastal U.S. Highway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Visitor to California | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

...print of an oil painting that the President started the week before his late heart attack and finished painting in the hospital at Denver. The print showed a snowscape of St. Louis Creek, in the Rockies, where the President often liked to fish. "He knows every rock in the stream," said one of the recipients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Baby No. 1958 | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

Swarms in Bazaars. Strongman Daoud was aware that his strict Moslem people might be tempted to rash acts by their religious hostility to Communism, by the tales told by the constant stream of refugees from nearby Russian Turkistan, and by the age-old assumption among Afghans that anything to the north is barbaric. As arrival day approached, the bazaars swarmed with secret police, who questioned strangers and put suspicious persons under house arrest for the duration of the Russians' visit. Along the three-mile route from the airport into the capital, families were warned that any untoward incident might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Cool Welcome | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

...respectively. McVeagh never played squash before he came to Harvard, but learned fast and improved greatly toward the end of last season. Cortesi, like Martin Heckscher at eight, plays a varied game. Both make good use of the side walls while wearing their opponents down with a steady stream of shots. Senior Lann Thomas will start at eight...

Author: By Lewis M. Steel, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 12/3/1955 | See Source »

...example of how the NAACP has lost much respect in Mississippi, among even the most fair-minded people, was its recent handling of the Till case. It loosed a stream of vicious accusations and threats, indicting officials, newspapers, ministers, and the so-called "better citizens" of the entire state. Moreover, it began its accusations as soon as the body was found, despite the fact that every person and organization in the state let out a cry against the murder. People from all types of occupations were asked about the Till case, and no one came near condoning such a brutal...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: The Negro in the South: II | 12/2/1955 | See Source »

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