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Barcelona was in the path of a tornado. As the sky opened, every sun-baked gulch became a torrent. The dust-dry beds of the rivers on either side of Barcelona carried floods 75 ft. wide. Debris piled up against bridges and then the bridges plunged downstream. A 6-ft. wall of water smashed into the crowded industrial suburbs and carried all before it: hundreds of rubble-brick houses, telephone poles, autos. horses and wagons, people. Sixteen gypsies encamped under a bridge were swept clean away...
...made out of Canadian uranium, has long been a legend in business and financial circles. But even after this legend has faded, he will be remembered as a collector. Every top dealer on both sides of the Atlantic knows the bustling little (5 ft. 4 in.) figure with the torrent of enthusiasm. And scores of U.S. artists who are now prosperous and famous remember him as the man who had enough faith in their talent to buy their work before anyone else. For Hirshhorn never buys out of charity, nor does he depend on the advice of hired connoisseurs...
...U.S.S.R. has long propped up Castro's chaotic economy and trickled in military aid. But in late July, the trickle be came a torrent; since then, according to U.S. intelligence figures, 61 ships carrying Soviet arms and men have arrived in Cuba or are on the way. The Kennedy Administration said little about the Cuba buildup - until New York Republican Kenneth Keating rose on the Senate floor, outlined what he had heard about the Russian shipments, demanded that the Administration tell the U.S. what was going on. Others took up the cry, and under mounting pressure President Kennedy...
Your story on the fabulous moondoggle is possibly one of the most painful expositions of screeching insanity ever seen in print. At a time when our crushing load of taxation is stifling our industry, blocking our social progress and bringing joy to our enemies, an endless torrent of taxpayers' dollars is being recklessly poured into an open-end inverted rathole...
...That was only the beginning. After months of frustration, something inside Freeman said "to hell with it." Flailing his hands and pouring out a torrent of angry words, he pushed on: "We know that the Republican Administration left agriculture in a first-class mess. The biggest mess they left in Washington was agriculture. And it's even more their responsibility that they're being completely negative and trying to frustrate every effort to clear up that mess." The G.O.P. position now, he said, was " 'Let's leave it in a mess because it's going...