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...drivers had lost control. The people shrieked in horror as they realized that the trucks were not stopping. The first truck hit the crowd headon. It surged a full 40 yds., rising like a motorboat over successive waves of humanity until the friction of broken bodies and torn limbs slowed and stopped it. The second truck, veering to one side and running a parallel course, also rammed into a mass of people. The tow cable between the trucks acted as a scythe, severing bodies through the middle. More than 100 dancers and onlookers died immediately, including James Driscoll...
...knee in intimate detail. "This knee," said the Pentagon, "has had the medial meniscus [cartilage] removed; it is a knee which shows that the patient has a tear of the anterior cruciate ligament; it is a knee that has pathology on the lateral side, most likely a torn posterior third of the lateral meniscus with osteoarthritic changes." It was, the report concluded, O.K. for Joe to play football, where "he is closely watched and professional assistance is close at hand." But in Viet Nam, where "the life and safety of his comrades could depend on Namath's performing...
Another stinging setback for the Grand Knights came from the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, which severely enjoined Klan members from interfering with the civil rights of Negroes in Louisiana's Washington Parish, whose biggest town is strife-torn Bogalusa (pop. 23,000). In a decision that may deter Klan mischief more effectively than any number of congressional investigations, Judge John Minor Wisdom warned Klan toughs all over the South that they face effective federal intervention at the smallest interference with Negroes' rights, can no longer use economic coercion and threats of violence...
...There is Amanda Wingfield, a faded Mississippi belle stranded in the slums of St. Louis who is trying desperately to recapture the dead world of the Delta; Jim O'Connor, the gentleman caller, an engaging boor who represents the present Amanda is avoiding; Tom, Amanda's son, torn between love for his mother and sister and the desire to escape into the living world around him; and Laura, Amanda's daughter, a shy and delicately beautiful cripple who can cope with no world but that of her glass animals...
...biennials won his works places in London's Tate and New York's Museum of Modern Art. For Pomodoro, the starting point is always solid geometry; the tension begins as he scars and gouges out his spheres, cylinders, cubes and disks. "The contrast between the polished and torn surfaces is precisely the difficulty of the individual to adapt to a new world," he feels. What he finds within evokes a strange and curious crystalline imagery drawn from the machine. His slabs look like the innards of computers, his spheres like ball-shaped printing heads for IBM typewriters...