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...Blazing Shotgun. Two days later, a fire nearly destroyed the Lewises' small home, forced them to move to nearby Pomona. After they returned in May, they reported a series of thefts. Next, the Lewises insisted, they were plagued by a shotgun blast that tore into their house while they were eating; by carloads of white teen-agers who roared by, jeering "nigger lover"; by young white hoodlums accosting their six children, even to the point of shoving the youngest daughter, on her tricycle, down Castle Hill toward traffic...
...tornado ten years ago swept through Flint, Mich., and tore up the town. Afterward, hundreds of people came from miles around to pitch in and help rebuild. Up walked an old geezer wearing a carpenter's apron and carrying his own hammer and nails. When he tried to climb a ladder to help nail roofing, a foreman shooed him away. The would-be carpenter was furious. "They think I'm too old!" he grumped. "That's all nonsense. I can outwork half these guys, and I'm as handy with a hammer as the next...
...bullet tore into Evers' back, plowed through his body, pierced a window and a wall in the house, and came to rest beneath a watermelon on a kitchen counter. Evers' wife Myrlie cried to her three small children to fall to the floor. She ran outside. "Medgar was lying there on the doorstep in a pool of blood," she said. "I tried to get the children away. But they saw it all-the blood and the bullet hole that went right through...
...downtown section of the city. They got as far as the first intersection. There, cops waited with dogs, tear-gas guns and rifles. As the mob spilled toward the police, the people yelled, "Shoot! Shoot! Shoot!" The cops rushed the crowd. One dog leaped for a woman. Screams tore through the air as the police grabbed the woman and carried her down the street...
After scoring a fourth run in the fourth inning, the Crimson tore into Dealy for seven earned runs in the sixth. Tom Bilodeau drove in the first run with a single, and Tom Stephenson scored two others with a similar blow. Diehl capped the rally with a slicing drive down the right field line that eluded all fielders and went for a grand-slam home...