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...flow of Cambodian refugees swelled into a torrent, TIME Correspondent David DeVoss visited a troubled sector of southeastern Thailand, just across the border from the site of heavy fighting between the Vietnamese and the Khmer Rouge. His report...
...double play with one out and men on first and second. First baseman Mark Bingham flipped the ball toward the mound after the inning-ending putout, at which point Keyte ran after the ball, hollering about the man on third. The Crimson benchdogs let loose a torrent of guffaws, giggles and razzes...
...delegate to the League of Nations. After the Spanish Civil War, he became an energetic opponent of Franco, living in England, broadcasting to Latin America for the BBC, and working for various international organizations. All the while he poured out-in English, French and Spanish-a torrent of political books, literary essays, novels, poems, plays, histories and biographies. (His Bolivar dubbed the great liberator "a vulgar imitator of Napoleon.") In Anarchy or Hierarchy (1937), Madariaga called for political equality but social hierarchy, since he believed that "inequality is the inevitable consequence of liberty." His decades of exile, he once told...
...Administration's voluntary wage-price guidelines are getting off to a shakier start than friend or foe had anticipated. Kahn, the anti-inflation czar, does not have enough staffers or even telephones to accommodate the torrent of questions from business and labor leaders seeking clarification of the complex program, with its ambivalent language and infamous algebraic equations for figuring out how much prices may be raised...
...seen any tents they could go to. They slowly answered no, stumbled and followed. Hypothermia. I ran on, hoping they still knew enough to follow my footprints. But I couldn't keep going for long. Again Adrian's footprints ran out, suddenly, for good reason. There was a torrent that had to be crossed, one that looked too strong to ford...