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...buzzard is now full-grown and he flaps up an enormous storm. Also whirling about in the tornado are a superhumanly powerful dwarf who lurks in treetops and confuses Laurie Mae with his dead mother; an ex-cop who loves Jesus, liquor and sleeping with daughter, but not in that order; and a skinny blackmailer with a fat tootsie named Sugar Dolly...
Barcelona was in the path of a tornado. As the sky opened, every sun-baked gulch became a torrent. The dust-dry beds of the rivers on either side of Barcelona carried floods 75 ft. wide. Debris piled up against bridges and then the bridges plunged downstream. A 6-ft. wall of water smashed into the crowded industrial suburbs and carried all before it: hundreds of rubble-brick houses, telephone poles, autos. horses and wagons, people. Sixteen gypsies encamped under a bridge were swept clean away...
...dawn, the Barcelona area looked as if it had been sacked. Corpses floated along the beaches. Thousands were homeless, and much of Barcelona's hard-worked industry lay in ruins. The tornado's human toll: 500 dead, 400 missing...
...beginning of the Kanto Daishinsai, or Great Kanto Earthquake Disaster, which was not only the most destructive earthquake ever recorded but also, in all probability, the most serious natural calamity in the long and frequently calamitous history of the human race." The earthquake and the succeeding tornado-whipped fires killed an estimated 140,000 persons in Tokyo and nearby Yokohama. The great fires; known historically as the "Flowers of Edo," destroyed nearly seven square miles of downtown Tokyo, an area, Busch estimates, that was "not quite twice the area covered by the great London. Chicago and San Francisco fires...
...Texas. Only when he turned to one of his favorite subjects-fiscal responsibility in Government-did Ike sound like his old self. There is, he said, a "tornado of confusion'' in Washington. "We have been told we are balancing the budget, and the next day we are told how we have a $6.7 billion deficit. We have had advice and contrary advice. We have been told everything, and then it is refuted. You can see I have been confused. I believe this country is in a time of prosperity. If it cannot pay its debts, what is going...