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...miles along the Columbia's lower reaches, families fled their homes. Under the water's relentless weight, dikes became soggy, began to leak in small treacherous rivulets. Downstream from Portland, the dike protecting Woodland (Wash.) broke. Four days later the river cracked the Johns Dike at Clatskenie. At Portland, the backed-up waters of the Willamette River topped the retaining walls, flooded the railroad station and the airport. Trucks and bulldozers worked night & day; troops and volunteers sandbagged every damp spot...
...doxtrose-filed Freshman plodded his way through 26 miles of concrete roads and woodland paths yesterday in the annual Boston Marathon. He is Lawrence R. Zeitlin '51, who entered the race "just to ace if I could...
...longest continued career in silviculture of any similar institution in the land, the Forest has grown from a tract of miscellaneous woodlots and abandoned farmland of 1907, the year it came into the University hands, into a "model forest" and experiment station for demonstrating forestry practices. In addition, the woodland serves as the University's school of forestry for a student body of five...
Maine endured other grievous losses. By week's end eight towns had been destroyed, 1,056 houses burned, 100,000 acres of woodland gutted, 13 people killed and 2,500 made homeless. Maine's fires-and hundreds of others scattered through New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey and New York-still blazed and smoldered...
...from the madding crowd," the Varsity cross country runner asks for and gets little glory. He spends the fall afternoons chasing wind-swept leaves along some deserted woodland path, over hill and dale...