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...borders on the suicidal. Powered by supercharged 2,000-h.p. engines, the big, unlimited-class hydroplanes just about fly-touching the water only with the propeller and two sponsons each the size of a water ski. A patch of rough water can send a boat somersaulting to destruction, and woe to the hapless driver who gets caught behind a rival's arcing 30-ft.-high rooster-tail wake. Last week, as 200,000 boat-racing buffs lined the shores of Seattle's Lake Washington, twelve of the big hydros took off after one another in the 54th annual...
...report brought embarrassment to the Forest Service, which comes under Secretary Orville Freeman's woe-weary Agricultural Department and holds about 160 million acres under its domain. Edward C. Crafts, a Forest Service spokesman, confessed that the service had not been "sufficiently aggressive'' in policing claims on its lands. But the Government did display an encouraging ability to learn by its mistakes: Crafts has been transferred. Now he works for the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation...
...return to fight at whatever the cost for the republic about which we dream." said Jānio. "To arrive at the destiny that we desire and the Brazil that we want. There is only one order: we must stay united. And woe to those who have wanted to know, and who do not belong to the people, the reasons for my renouncing the presidency. The reasons for my renouncement will be known in the public square.'' After his emotional but hardly enlightening speech, Quadros fell silent. In his purposely enigmatic way, he was testing the political air, and he probably...
Like Browning, Lowell relies on energy, intelligence, originality, erudition. His best poems read like vigorous, carefully patterned prose. They are more vivid than sensitive; Lowell looks out at the world more often than he looks in on himself. The sonnet, To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage, conveys the rude vigor of the late-Lowell style...
...life, and 2) install him in London as chief of European operations. While the deal is still pending, the hero is ordered to keep tabs on the boss's giggly, wiggly, teen-aged daughter (Pamela Tiffin), who is flying to Berlin for a two-week visit. Woe is Cagney. The boy-crazy bag stays for two months, then casually announces that she has secretly married a red-hot Red (Horst Buchholz) and will be moving to Moscow the next...