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...again to make sure that it gets through undistorted. "He has learned that the President is above all a teacher," says Wexler. In the course of his campaigning, swooping down in his gleaming silver-and-blue Air Force One jet to land in Tallahassee or Boston, St. Louis or Tacoma, he has done some of the best explaining of his Administration...
Loud-mouthed presidential brothers are nothing new, however. One has to go back to the Eisenhower era to find a president whose siblings kept their shenanigans in the shade. And even Ike's brother Edgar, a highbrow industrialist from Tacoma, Washington, liked to get in his digs at his brother the president. "Edgar's been criticizing me since I was five," Ike once joked at a press conference...
...mountain was also providing painful lessons for those who live near it. The prevailing westerly winds suddenly reversed themselves and dropped ash over a huge area from Tacoma, Wash., to Eugene, Ore. including many communities that had so far largely escaped the sooty downpour. Along the coast, thousands of Memorial Day tourists were stranded by the poor visibility and impossible road conditions. In Portland which likes to call itself the "most livable city," the International Airport was forced to suspend operations, while a Pacific Coast League baseball game was "ashed out." Residents donned surgical and industrial face masks, if they...
Roald Reitan, 19, and his friend Venus Dergen, 20, of Tacoma, Wash., had been camping next to a good fishing hole in the Toutle River, about 23 miles downstream from Spirit Lake. They were awakened by a rumbling noise from the river, which was covered by felled trees. The pair ran to Reitan's car, but water from the rising river poured over the road, preventing them from driving away. Then a tide of mud crashed through the forest toward the car. Reitan and Dergen climbed to the roof of the car. That got them above...
Green is such a calming color that many school walls are painted "educational green" to reduce the restlessness of students. Now educational green may have to yield to an even more soothing tint: "jailhouse pink." According to Alexander Schauss, director of biosocial research at City College in Tacoma, Wash., the sight of the color pink changes the secretion of hormones, thus reducing aggressiveness. A jail commander in San Jose, Calif., who has tested the theory says it works-for a while. Lieut. Paul Becker found that prisoners were less hostile for the first 15 minutes in a cell that...