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The surprising part, Helms said, was that the river had already reached its flood stage and was receding. Pia Zadora headlines the National Multiple Sclerosis Society entertainment honoring jockey Bill Shoemaker on Tuesday at the Beverly Hilton. The students, rumpled and still muffled from the snowy New England weather, await the great professor Notebooks are out, pens poised. Buchanan, seems to be showing up only on the late-night shows.

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