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...pregnant, had filled the formula room's canister on Tuesday. She did this from one of two identical 20-gal. galvanized cans standing side by side in the kitchen, their lids marked with stick-on labels that said "sugar" and "salt'' (the salt label was torn). Mrs. Colvin was sure she had filled the canister from the can labeled sugar-but this might have contained salt, perhaps because the lids had been accidentally switched...
...News for Tennessee, who nevermore comes to St. Louis. The house where Hazel Kramer lived was torn down last year, and a medical center now stands in its place. Dakin pointed the house out to me once saying: "That used to be the home of the only girl my brother ever loved." Dakin knows most of his brother's lines by heart and needs no prodding to act them out. He takes great pride in his brother's achievements...
Slow Death. As peace appeared ever closer, the S.A.O. seemed ever more desperately determined to prevent it. During a single morning last week, 54 S.A.O. plastic bombs exploded in the Moslem quarter of Oran, burying families in the debris of tumbled tenements. The French army, torn between loyalty to De Gaulle and reluctance to give up Algeria, continued to show convenient blindness toward S.A.O. activities: Jeeploads of terrorists openly wore army-type uniforms and S.A.O. armbands. But there were signs, too, that the army was becoming increasingly disgusted with the S.A.O...
...week's end, an uneasy peace was imposed. At least six were dead, scores injured. The fire loss was reckoned in the millions. The loss to Jagan may prove irreparable. Neither he nor his racially torn country seems ready for the independence Jagan so insistently demands...
...Leopoldville that 19 Roman Catholic missionaries had been massacred at Kongolo in northern Katanga by mutinying Congolese troops. Lawson volunteered to fly to the terror-stricken town to rescue one missionary who reportedly had survived. Lawson's two Swedish pilots landed their Beaver plane at Kongolo's torn-up airfield, and Lawson threw himself out the door to avoid fire from snipers. "I was very lonely and very scared," he said. "I picked up my stick and strolled...