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Internal politics were no better. The political leaders were unable to keep the peace for more than a few days. Cabinets fell and rose. Venizelos, who had been recalled from a self-imposed exile, became Premier (TIME, Jan. 21, 1924). A few days in power and he fell (TIME, Feb. 11, 1924) and in a month had again left the country to stew in its own juice (TIME, March 17, 1924). A Kafandaris Cabinet was succeeded by a Papanastasiou, by a Sofoulis, by a Michalakopoulis...
Again the continent shivered and stretched its right hip. Brick fell in the streets of Santa Barbara, buildings collapsed, hotels and banks were reported in ruins, the dam of one of the city's reservoirs burst, telegraphic and telephonic connections severed, several were killed...
...Mackenzie, British Engineer, and Miss Mary Duncan, British subject. As Miss Duncan reported, Mackenzie got out of the car and asked the coolie? what they wanted. Horrid laughter greeted him. A shot was fired. Mackenzie scrambled back into the car. A volley of bullets followed him and he fell mortally wounded. Miss Duncan, slightly wounded, seized the wheel, drove to the concession...
Outside St. Peter's in Rome there were strange scenes, last week. In fiendish war-paint, a band of Iroquois Indians fell upon canoeing Jesuit priests, slashed them with knives, bit out their fingernails, grilled their soles on glowing tomahawks - all on large banners which decorated the main entrance to the church...
...leopard dropped, was up again, darting for cover, with White after it, followed by two natives with extra quivers of arrows. One carried also a small gun, by way of "mental comfort." The hidden leopard surprised one of White's companions, fell upon him and clawed him. The gun carrier came to the rescue and fired pointblank. More infuriated, the beast turned upon the firer, bit him furiously. White seized the fallen gun and fired the second shot, only to draw the leopard's attack on himself with such force that he was knocked down, leopard...