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...craftsman to try to convey his vision in headlines or rant of any kind. Instead of giving it full vent, he gives it narrow vent -through 66 short, spare poems cast as tales or fables, like fragments of some folk epic. The effect is like that of a torrent forced through a narrow nozzle: cutting intensity and tremendous, controlled force...
Prompted by a torrent of complaints from victimized buyers, Banking Committee staff members investigated Section 235 homes in ten cities. "It is common practice in the inner city," said the report, "to pick up houses for minimal amounts, perform a so-called 'paste-up' or 'cosmetic' rehabilitation which, in many cases, amounts to a few hundred dollars, and then resell the property under Section 235 for a profit of thousands of dollars." Buyers are willing to pay outrageous prices partly because of the exceptionally easy terms made possible by the subsidies. In Paterson, N.J., for example...
Throughout the three-day trial in Rome's crowded criminal court last week, it was difficult to distinguish the prosecution from the defense. Both sides, in a torrent of rhetoric, apparently considered the U.S. the real culprit and not Defendant Raffaele Minichiello. A lance corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps, Minichiello, now 21, set a still unbroken record for long-distance skyjacking in October 1969, when he forced the crew of a TWA jet to fly 6,900 miles from California to Rome. At the time, Minichiello was AWOL and fleeing from a court-martial; he had broken...
...Bristol, a daily torrent of 50 million gallons of wastes poisoned the once sweet Avon River. At Blackpool, raw sewage spewed directly into the Irish Sea. Eleven acres of low-lying country by the Ray River were flooded with Swindon's flushings, which then seeped perilously close to Oxford's water supply. In London, most of the city's daily output of 570 million gallons was kept under control, but two tributaries of the Thames flowed with filth...
...pulled out their little red books and began studying the gospel according to Mao. The American teen-agers were fascinated. Two of them approached the knot of Chinese and offered to buy the Mao badges. The Chinese ignored them. The Americans persisted. Then one Chinese let loose with a torrent of Mandarin that sounded abusive...