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...after her handler, Druggist Bill Swift of Selma, Ala., let her go. Swift's whistled commands moved Roz through the course as though she were on a long leash-a series of short blasts sent her roaming, a long blast brought her back. Coolly, she ignored the occasional roar of a shotgun fired to test her poise. Going into a perfect point, taut and quivering, she deftly pinned down eight coveys. Once she pointed at an empty spot still warm with the scent of quail. But when Swift released her, she sprinted ahead for 150 yds. and tracked down...
...first shock was a "rumbling noise"; the second "brought down roofs, walls, and facçades of churches, palaces and houses and shops in a dreadful, deafening roar of destruction." About an hour later, "the waters of the Tagus rocked and rose menacingly, and then poured in three great towering waves over its banks." King Joseé moved into an encampment under canvas outside the city. There were penitential processions and prayers. A few looters (including five Irishmen) were executed. The quake destroyed a great many of the city's 40-odd churches and 90 convents, as well...
...shredding planes veered away from each other, the smaller Scorpion plummeting to a puff of smoke in the green-brown Verdugo hills to the northeast. The DC-7B at first spiraled lazily, then, its dive steepening, went into a twisting spin, finally plunged with a thunderous roar onto the lawn of the Pacoima Congregational Church, just a block from the Junior High School. There on the athletic fields, 220 seventh-and eighth-grade boys were moving back into the gymnasium...
...National Guards are the nation's most important reservoir of military manpower. It is the force the nation would depend on for second-line defense in case of an all-out war. Charlie Wilson's statement branding the National Guard as a "draft-dodging business" and the subsequent roar of protest have oversimplified the problem of reorganizing the Guard and intergrating it into the nation's defense system...
...return the fire. Finally there were 20 tanks, some 75 infantrymen, a truck, and an armored car outside the barracks. "Colonel Maleter came and looked down," recalls Peter Szanto. "He picked up a small nitroglycerin bottle and threw it at the truck. The truck disappeared in one big roar. Then we all threw nitroglycerin bottles and benzine flashes and used machine pistols on the infantry. It was a fine trick. We killed the infantry, got the truck, the armored car, and four of the tanks in about five minutes...