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Nature, in whose eyes all men seem equal, last week tore down-at least for a little while-some of South Africa's walls of prejudice...
Cracked Heads. Communist Walter Audisio, who likes to boast that he was Mussolini's executioner, sped to the clerk's table, ripped away a microphone, scared off the clerks and tore up the parliamentary minutes. Spying an elderly Demo-Christian deputy who was grabbing an antique clock to save it, Audisio clubbed him to the floor. Tough Demo-Christian Deputy Giuseppe Bettiol tore the leg off a chair, advanced on Audisio and beat him into retreat...
...Oakland, Calif., when Edward Sandner's car broke down one time too many, he picked up a .22 rifle, pumped several shots into the tires, smashed the radiator and spark plugs with a rock, tore out the upholstery, set fire to the remains...
...tore on, paused before the English-language Iraq Times, and rolled paraffin under the steel doors (the Reds came well prepared), setting it afire. An automatic weapon chattered at the rioters from atop the police station. The mob, roaring like a wounded beast, rolled massively to the police station, set it in flames, tore apart three policemen as they scuttled out, and beheaded one of the bodies. A comparative handful of Reds, commanding an army of malcontents, had all but taken over ancient Baghdad, a city...
...modern world has never seen more than a faded hint of the magnificent frescoes executed by Raphael for the Vatican Palace's second-floor loggia. For three centuries after they were painted, the gallery's 13 bays had no windows; wind and rain tore at the pictures. Man was even more cruel: the frescoes were mutilated during the sack of Rome in 1527, later by Napoleon's troops in 1798; since then they have been botched by well-meaning restorers...