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...Before dawn next morning strange Christian soldiers wearing skirts, newly arrived from the United Kingdom, speaking with a thick burr and known as the Black Watch, surrounded Daharieh, ostentatiously showing their weapons. Emboldened by the Black Watch's presence, the disarmed Christian police demanded that the Moslem villagers restore their arms, roughly ordered Moslem women to aid them in searching cellars. Having found no weapons, the Christians set charges of dynamite under the houses of three prominent Arab residents who remained helpless while their homes and goods were blown to smithereens. Finally the Christians, after sending their patrol...
...Bruno, 20, reputedly soon got his hand in bombing Valencia, and in Rome friends of his mother said she had told them: "If I had not been at our country place I would have stopped Bruno from going. He telephoned through to say he was leaving for Spain at dawn and nothing I could...
...chill quiet of a Virginia dawn last week, a small vessel lapped its way into the Chesapeake Bay toward Norfolk. Aboard was the man who for nearly three weeks had been the world's most sought after newspaper figure. With little of the understanding of or co-operation toward the press which characterized him when he was making glowing headlines far himself as the Senate's Great Investigator, Mr. Justice Hugo LaFayette Black, whom newspaper investigation had just revealed as a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. was slipping home from Europe as quietly as possible...
...result of a police raid on overnight parkers in the vicinity of the Houses, the dawn broke yesterday morning with red tickets fluttering from 25 or 30 windshield wipers along Dunster, Holyoke, Plimpton, and Mill Streets. Not only is the usual "number has been taken" clause there, but stamped on the bottom, it asks the bearer to present the tag at Traffic Division within 24 hours--before 5.30 o'clock...
...beside the old stone ramparts. It was the first night spent in the open with only pup-tents overhead. Mother Nature celebrated the occasion with a generous baptism of cloudbursts, first from the east, then from the west, and some claim that it rained up as well as down. Dawn came, at long last, with a rising sun, a clear sky, and the fatigue trousers of Robert V. Smith, Yale '38, fluttering wildly in the breeze from the flagstaff on the old fort...