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Mark Meyer placed eighth for the harriers, while Rocky Moulton rolled in 17 seconds later in tenth place...
...Neil lost seven city races before he was given what was left of Louise Day Hicks' council term when she left the position and he won re-election in '75. He got the post because he had finished tenth in a race for nine spots. The loudest, most unrestrained of the candidates in any race he has entered, the media portrayed O'Neil as a joke, and like Dr. Frankenstein, it lost control of the monster it had created. His antics have gathered a following, and the reason can be found in the shifting social pressures in Boston...
...game had featured a raspy recording of the national anthem and a hat trick by Bert Bowery, one of three starting Minutemen players who had weathered the entire season. But neither goals nor patriotism helped Boston, which went on to lose its tenth straight in overtime, after its lead vanished with three minutes remaining...
...will do nothing to ameliorate a more immediate problem for the regime: growing anti-white rage among the urban blacks needed to run the South African economy. In Soweto (pop. 1 million), near Johannesburg, less than a third of the blacks' dwellings have electric lights; less than a tenth have running water. In the slum sections, robbery and rape are commonplace; says a woman from the Naledi section of Soweto: "I pray we could have daylight for all 24 hours; people die here when it gets dark...
...World War II (11.1), the Black Death (10.9), World War I (10.5), Stalin's Great Purge of 1936-38 (10.2) and the 1923 earthquake that devastated Tokyo (9.1). Some rankings will come as a surprise. The atomic bombing of Hiroshima (8.2) turns out to be only one-tenth of a point more disastrous than the 1970 avalanche in Peru...