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...near the school and the cathedral. Apparently an underground stream continued to flow beneath the old river bed. eroding the soil and rock to form a natural tunnel that finally collapsed. One consolation was that the crash came on a Saturday; on a schoolday the death toll might have run into hundreds...
...Orleans meeting of the Inter-American Press Association last week, Barranquilla Editor Julian Devis Echandia, defending Rojas' censorship on the ground that Colombia is "in a state of war," said that the six-year death toll in his country's civil war has now reached...
...there are 70 million. [In 1965] there will be 81 million, and [in 1975] at least 86 million. Thus no matter how successful the [cancer control] program may be, the magnitude of the problem will increase. If death rates continue at exactly the present level, the annual cancer death toll will rise to 288,000 within ten years...
...took its toll in the last half of the race and the graduates began to fade. At the half, Jordan increased his lead to a length and a half, while Platt, Zezza, and the graduate crew followed, each separated by a quarter-length...
...less important hardwoods, while softwoods, in huge demand for construction and papermaking, were cut down in 1952 almost one-third faster than they grew. The quality of timber, he said, is declining. Control of insect pests, which in 1952 killed 5 billion board feet of sawtimber (seven times the toll of fire), has not gone far enough. Nor have the growth ratios increased enough; by the year 2000, the Forest Service guesses, U.S. demand for non-fuel timber will be from 70% to 100% bigger than...