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Some blamed four inches of snow blanketing the roof, but this was not an unseasonal load, and the roof should have carried it easily. Others in Genoa's streets muttered darkly of profiteers. Last week, as investigators combed the wreckage, Cornigliano suspended all its building contractors until it determined whether bad design, faulty materials or sabotage caused the disaster. All Italy was downcast save for the Reds, who crowed that this was only what one might expect of "The Cursed Foundry...
...joined the British side and declared war on the Axis. In 1948 they murdered Cairo's police chief, and when Premier Mahmoud Fahmy el Nokrashy bravely outlawed the Brotherhood, they murdered Nokrashy as well. Two months later el Banna paid for his crimes: an auto load of gunmen shot him down in broad daylight on a Cairo street. The movement went underground.When it legally emerged again in 1951, its popular resistance to King Farouk and the British gained it many fellow travelers, among them a young colonel named Gamel Abdel Nasser and a general named Mohammed Naguib...
...Robert Hooke, a 17th century British scientist-of-all-trades, first announced the formula that stress set up within an elastic body is proportional to the strain to which the body is subjected by an applied load. He also partially anticipated Newton's law of gravity, published original discoveries about fossils and the rotation of the planet Jupiter, invented the double barometer and the universal joint, and worked out a practical system of semaphore telegraphy...
...went to the Concertgebouw under famed Willem Mengelberg in 1931, took over the orchestra after the difficult war years and reconstructed it. For several years he also commuted to London's Philharmonic as a principal conductor, but gave that assignment up when the strain of his double-conducting load became too great. The Concertgebouw's regular season is taxing enough: more than 100 programs in eight months. What really bothers Van Beinum, however, is playing festival concerts. "I don't like it," he says. "I play all year. Why have a special festival to play the same...
...reverse cradle pin by 177-pound Ken Culbert in the last fifteen seconds of his match chopped a six point Columbia load to one point and the meet decision was in doubt until the final match...