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...SUNDAY afternoon and raining; in Vermont the foliage of the swamp maples and sumac had already turned their final colors. I sat in the rocker where Frost must have sat, before a fire leaping in the fireplace, enjoying the comfortable associations that I used to have with Frost. That was before Lawrence Thompson's just-published heavy second volume of Frost's biography, Years of Triumph. With it a whole summer's worth of enraged reviews have emerged, suggesting that Thompson had written an expose which profaned a sacred image...
...converging on Hampton Beach after the reported sighting of Gilday Thursday night. A police helicopter saw a man resembling his description run into the salt marshes and hovered over the area for several minutes spraying pepper gas on the area. Police set up a dragnet and skimmed through the swamp until dark. Gilday watched much of the bustle from a tree...
...congressional, senatorial and gubernatorial campaigns this fall. Even if only a tenth of that number actually turn out, Harris calculates, there will be 200,000 students out on the hustings around the U.S. "The experiment could well change American politics beyond recognition," Harris says. "The students could virtually swamp the political process." Or, he adds, they could stir up an enormous anti-student reaction on the part of their elders...
...residents to apply for abortions each year and faces the possibility that an invasion from outside the state and city may swell the applicant total to 250,000 or even 500,000. New York's other major cities expect a comparable demand that may well swamp their hospital facilities...
...Unfortunately, the basin forms a unique "hydric hammock" that abounds with rare alligators, panthers and wild turkeys. The hammock harbors this life because the river bed is periodically exposed to air, thus providing alternating wet and dry seasons that are essential to the survival of the wild, beautiful river-swamp system. With permanent flooding, ecologists warn, the system's rare creatures will soon vanish...