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...threw up a 19-ft. dike of earth, stone and sandbags to protect the Washington Monument and new Government buildings near the river. Residents of outlying Georgetown took to rowboats and canoes as the waters seeped up, flowed over Washington-Hoover and Bolling flying fields, swept away a few waterfront cottages, lapped the trunks of the famed Japanese cherry trees along the Potomac tidal basin...
...most hard-boiled political commentator. WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST, AMERICAN -Mrs. Fremont Older-Appleton-Century ($4). Authorized biography of the publisher, by the widow of San Francisco's famed liberal editor. FOG AND MEN ON BERING SEA-Max Miller-Button ($3). Max Miller covers the Alaskan waterfront on a Government boat. Illustrated with photographs...
...other hand, one Little Hall resident was at the waterfront, embarking for Ethiopia and Haile Selassle's army when the thought of Miss Murray's savory Union fare brought him back to Cambridge...
Manhattan. The Bell Telephone Laboratories, on the swarming downtown waterfront, have the most powerful microscope in the world, through which specks 150 molecules in diameter can be made out. Through this last week the touring troupe saw the microscopic structure of metal. The laboratory until recently also had a few sheep which, because their internal organs are much like those of humans, make good subjects for studying the effects of electric shock and methods of resuscitation...
...call because many a Californian is currently worrying himself into sick jitters over the Tom Mooney trial, the "Red Network," the San Francisco Industrial Association's secret dossiers on radicals, above all over what was first called the September and now the October "showdown on the waterfront''-the threatened recrudescence of last year's longshoremen's strike (TIME, June...