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...miles long, twelve miles wide and one-third of a mile deep, Tahoe is the third largest alpine lake in the world (after the Peruvian-Bolivian Titicaca and Oregon's Crater Lake). Poured out over California, it would submerge the entire state in 14½ in. of water. Withal, Tahoe is a volcanic and glacial marvel, ringed for one-third of the year by snow-dazzling mountain tops. To Mark Twain, Tahoe was a "noble sheet of blue water." In the past decade, it has faintly but frighteningly threatened to become a vast dead sea of green slime...
...persuaded carriers to accept a package settlement amounting to a 4.3% increase in machinists' wages and other benefits. It actually made little difference that the machinists, defying their own union leadership, later voted down even that hefty hike. The fact was that Johnson himself had ignored the guideposts-withal his rationale about airline "productivity"-and now the doors were wide open to above-the-line moves by both labor and management in all industries. That point was soon proved when the steel industry last week imposed major price increases, and the Johnson Administration could not in conscience do anything...
...which pincered German and Italian troops in western Sicily. The Allies were so grateful that they generally selected Mafia members to be mayors of occupied towns, even gifted Vizzini with two large trucks. The Mafia used them to transport food in the biggest black-market operation in the South. Withal, the Allies breathed new life and spirit into the 900-year-old Mafia, the world's oldest and most infamous gang of hoodlums...
...major preoccupation of modern sculptors has been, in effect, beating Rodin shapeless. The nude ballooned and blimped at the hands of Gaston Lachaise; man shrank under the chisel of Giacometti as if roasted overnight; Henry Moore punched holes through their stomachs. The products were monumental, surrealistic, but withal still related to the human figure. Somebody was bound to get tired of doing...
...literature and the theater. "She drives him crazy and his staff up the wall," says a Washington friend of the Senator's. "She is terribly disorganized. Her idea of whom he should see before going to Viet Nam was Actor Hugh O'Brian and Columnist Jimmy Breslin!" Withal, admits the friend, "she is a warm and lovable woman with deep feeling for Jack and their children...