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...Sense? Lisa operates professionally with all the canvasbacked insensitivity of the trained newshound, but personally she is as sensitive as a gouty toe. She suspects darkly that newsmen want to write her off as a pushy Clairol blonde who forges forward by making more sex than sense, and because she was once an actress in TV's daytime serial The Edge of Night. But she insists that she was a student of politics long before she began to act, cites articles she contributed to liberal magazines like Progressive World when she was 22, and notes that...
...night, while most of Longarone's inhabitants slept or watched a soccer game on television, a huge chunk of a nearby mountain called Toe broke loose and fell 650 ft. into the 873-ft.-high Vaiont Dam, 2½ miles from the town. The splash sent a 300-ft.-high tidal wave across the reservoir. Spilling over the lip, the avalanche of water cascaded into a gorge leading to the nearby Piave River. It churned up tons of rock and mud, and hit Longarone. Then the flood bounced off a mountainside, turned around, hit Longarone again, and continued down...
...mourned: "A truly Biblical disaster, like Pompeii." As the dead were stacked in a mass grave, angry Italians demanded an investigation. Before Vaiont Dam was built four years ago, local residents tried to get the hydroelectric project halted on grounds that the surrounding mountains were too avalanche prone. Mount Toe threw down such landslides so regularly that its nickname was "The Walking Mountain." But the government approved the reservoir anyway...
Creeping Warning. Last week, with Italy's Communists eagerly in the forefront, critics asked why the private electric company that constructed the dam before its nationalization a few months ago did not build a retaining wall to hold back Mount Toe. Moreover, loose earth had been creeping down the mountainside for two weeks prior to the disaster; the dam's supervisors had lowered the reservoir level 21 ft. and evacuated some smaller villages above the reservoir. But even though it lay directly in the dam's path, Longarone was not evacuated...
...Tech's offensive plays, and, what's more, he beats Coach Bobby Dodd at his own game: pool. Small wonder that Dodd calls Lothridge "the most valuable player in college today." It was Lothridge who, singlehanded, cost Alabama the 1962 national championship, using his talented toe to get Tech out of trouble nine times with punts that averaged 41 yds. and calmly booting the extra point that sent Alabama down to defeat for the only time all season, 7-6. A wiry, broadnosed senior, Lothridge is regarded by the pros as an adequate passer, a dependable runner...