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...Philadelphia's famed Mummers'Parade organizations. His family went campaigning with him-and turned out to be just as belligerent as he. Once his wife, Ann, smacked an obscene heckler with her handbag. Another time, Daughter Deborah, 11 , handed out a leaflet to a man who promptly tore it up and threw it in the gutter. "You can't do that to my Daddy," yelled Deborah, and beaned the man with her whole bundle of leaflets...
Mothers were almost too weak to care for their babies. Said Mrs. Albert Ritchie of Great Neck, Long Island: "I believed there was no escape from the plane. . . . The babies' screams just tore every mother's heart to pieces. Every woman would say, There, there.' But that was about all they ever said. Our three-year-old son, Gordon, spent hours on his father's knee . . . never saying a word. We said ten thousand goodbyes with our eyes that...
...adjacent and innocent property. ... It was as if a crew of firemen were trying to get a safe . . . out of the third story of a burning building. The stairs were on fire, so they had to take it through a window. . . . In their haste they knocked down gas pipes, tore holes in water lines and upset the electric wiring. They got the safe out, but left a lot of repair work to be done...
...steam by deluging neighbors with pillow feathers and toilet paper, and loudly counting out the steps as the referee paces off a penalty against Cal, ending up with a thunderous "You Bastard!" When Stanford beat Cal in last year's Big Game, 25-6, disgruntled Cal rooters tore up the grandstands. U.C.L.A.'s rooters, who last year had a Rose Bowl team, behave better...
Pregame fever reached the near-boiling point last night as 1500 vociferous Crimson followers all but tore down the doors of the Indoor Athletic Building in the season's first grid rally. Head-cheerleader Gerry Spear called the torchlight rally "one of the biggest in University history...