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Campbell was in the center of the main tornado that tore a half-mile-wide swath through Inverness. For perhaps a minute, he sat in suspended motion as much of the world about him caved in or exploded outward. "One house suddenly came apart like a dollhouse," he recalls. "The roof flew up, the walls spread out, and I could see two elderly persons, colored folks, crouched inside. Then everything sprang right back on top of them and they disappeared...
Torn to Bits. What Campbell witnessed was characteristic of a tornado. The houses on either side of a tornado's twisting funnel are in a low-pressure area. But the air inside the houses momentarily retains its original pressure. In that instant, a house can simply explode. Thus Civil Defense authorities urge people to keep their windows and doors open during a tornado so that the pressures can equalize. In Inverness, few heeded weather-service warnings that preceded the twisters...
...Samnelson's three Times round his Head. Sing, Mews! How, when the Sling slung-out at the wildly braying Masses, the added Impetus lent by the powerful Mammon sped the Tome through the Air with such incredible Speed: seventy-five pages ripped from the Binding. Sing! How, as when Tornado Winds, ripping and howling, some fragile Straw some thick wood Plank drive through: So drove these seventy-five Pages, like the Edges of as many Blades: So were seventy-four Flarbs decapitated. Unfortunately, the seventy-fifth Page decapitated the Mentor. But lo! Half-a-head sprang-up to replace...
...incredible," moans the 54-year-old laugh tycoon. To keep on top of orders, Kay has stopped commuting to his home in The Bronx and has taken a hotel room near his shabby Fifth Avenue showroom. "It's impossible," he adds. "It's just like a tornado...
...quality education." More frankly, Burton Gunter, a plainspoken Swansea farmer who sits on the county board of education, says that segregation academies are "going to take over everywhere," because "integration is ruining education-it's one of the worst things that ever hit this country, worse than a tornado...