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...profited from the deal and prominently displayed photos of the disputed property, which was once a slag heap. Cartoons depicted 10 Downing Street buried in black slag, with Wilson digging out. Libel writs were issued against three other papers; but they had little effect as the news torrent continued. The Labor-leaning Guardian explored the potential conflict-of-interest issue of a Prune Minister's aides speculating in real estate ventures. Television also gave the story big play; one editor whose paper was being sued appeared on a TV panel to discuss the case-an unheard-of practice...
...basket. At the opposite end of the court, Walton planted himself in front of Oregon State shooters like a giant redwood tree, branches stretching toward the ceiling. Near the end of the game, when Oregon State surged to within three points of U.C.L.A., Walton responded with a torrent of shots and rebounds that kept the Bruins in the lead. For his efforts that evening early this month: 31 points, 19 rebounds, and an 80-75 U.C.L.A. victory...
...that the Arabs had decided to unleash just such a monetary offensive. When highly exaggerated word that the Economic Council of the Arab League had voted to withdraw the estimated $10 billion that Arab nations have on deposit in U.S. and European banks hit the London Stock Exchange, a torrent of panic selling-described by some brokers as the worst in history-began...
Every year it is the pain and pleasure of Senior Editor Timothy Foote, Associate Editor R. Z. Sheppard, and the other members of the Books section to fight their way upstream through a torrent of titles and find, judge and write about the books that are eventually reviewed in TIME. "There are some 30,000 new titles published every year," says Foote, "but only about 6,000 are actually submitted for possible review." This week Foote and Sheppard collaborated in producing a section devoted entirely to children's books; it includes an article (by Sheppard) on Maurice Sendak...
...summer, you can't see the snow-capped peaks of the volcanoes unless it's early morning, for then the sky is not yet preparing its afternoon torrent. So it's best not to arrive after noon, unless you're wearing a sweater or two and a raincoat, and boots for the thick mud that dries to dust again over night. If you arrive in August, the pink and white plastic streamers from the July first saint's day fiesta still flicker against the sky above the hard, dusty, goat-trodden roads...