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...equipped to handle severe winter weather. In New Orleans, which had its coldest day in 20 years, one problem is basements: most houses do not have them, and so plumbing is particularly vulnerable to freezing. The combination of pipes bursting in the 16° weather, and people continuously running tap water (a common precaution against frozen pipes) left the city with critically low water pressure. Twenty-three miles upriver from New Orleans, a grain elevator in Destrehan (pop. 1,760) burst in the 18° cold, spewing out 1.5 million bushels of wheat that crushed an adjacent cafeteria...
...College forward Ed Rauseo gave the Crimson a break at the 15 minute mark, going off for a hold, and evening the sides at four. But only 35 seconds after he returned, B.C. notched its second man-up goal of the Litchfield penalty, a Billy O'Dwyer rebound and tap-in job at 17:35, to give the Eagles a 3-2 lead...
...opposite sides of middle age. Best of all, they had a county fair's worth of good dancin'. Cheerleaders shook their pompoms, Aggies stomped around the locker room, Edna's girls sashayed up and down the big staircase, and the Governor did what politicians do best-tap dance. That show opened in 1978 and they tell me it's still goin' strong...
...kids got taller and taller, jump balls were getting tougher. There were a lot of violations." McLaughlin says. Harvard center forward Monroe Trout, who has soared rafterward for all eight Harvard jump balls this season, adds, "people jump so quickly, trying to steal the tap--there was a lot of confusion...
...hardly the dominating figure of past appearances on Capitol Hill. In fact, he was carefully hidden from public view in the office of Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker. Nonetheless, there was David Stockman doing what he does best, hunching over a desk in shirtsleeves to tap out spending estimates on a pocket calculator. His typically virtuoso performance may have saved...