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Sixty-mile-an-hour gales shredded tents from Dan to Beersheba, tossed flimsy huts into the air and tore ripening oranges from trees. Thirty-six thousand refugees were homeless in Gaza. Trapped by rising waters, refugees died in Jordan. Part of the Negev desert that had been arid for as long as the oldest inhabitants remembered was suddenly laced with freakish torrents of brown water that cut off a camp and threatened starvation. Soldiers waded waist-deep to isolated camps, tightened sagging guy ropes, improvised drainage canals and dished out hot food. Israeli planes dropped food and medicine...
With the confidence of an experienced brawler, Democratic National Chairman Frank E. McKinney last week slipped on his knuckle-dusters and tore into Colonel "Bertie" McCormick's Chicago Tribune. McKinney's speech at a $100-a-plate Democratic dinner in Chicago was broadcast over the Tribune's radio station, WGN, and reported in the Trib itself (from an advance copy). Shouted McKinney: "If the voters of this great city had to rely upon the Chicago Tribune as their only source of news, then they would be as badly misinformed as those unhappy millions behind the Iron Curtain...
...field. The pilot had feathered the right-hand propeller, but flames reddened the smoke from the engine nacelle. From the streets of Elizabeth hundreds watched his fight to get back to the airport. The fight was lost almost as they looked up. With an explosive crump the right wing tore off and the Commando plunged toward the ground...
Shortly after dawn, seven men in a guarded room in Washington's Department of Agriculture building crowded around a large metal bo., with two heavy padlocks. One man opened the first lock, another the second. Then for almost five hours, they pulled sealed envelopes from the box, tore them open, and carefully tabulated reports from farmers all over the U.S. A few minutes before n, the guards unlocked the doors, admitted Agriculture Secretary Charlie Brannan. Once he had examined the totals, signed his name and marched out again, the doors were thrown open. In came a dozen reporters...
...grey, impenetrable fog. Rain lashed at the canopy. The outside air temperature dropped. Comte continued to circle, nose down, while his plane climbed faster and faster-like a man moving upstairs while strolling slowly downward on a racing escalator. At 11,000 ft. the rain turned to hail that tore noisily at the wings. The airspeed indicator froze, and the rate-of-climb indicator stuck at 5 ft. per second. The needle of the glider's sealed barograph reached its limit at 27,000 ft. But the plane, bucking and pitching in the turbulent winds, kept on climbing...