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...lightning." In a house on Staten Island, across the Narrows from Brooklyn, a housewife heard a noise that sounded like a "thousand dishes crashing from the sky." As she watched, the TWA Connie, carrying 44 passengers and crewmen, crashed to earth near by. Seconds later, a broken and torn DC-8 jet, which had been United Air Lines' proud Flight 826, bound for Idlewild from Chicago with 84 people, fell out of the sky into Brooklyn...
...Fairy Book. From the torn DC-8 fuselage came piercing cries. A teen-age boy ran down the street, screaming: "Oh, those people are burning to death!" A passing priest rushed into his church for holy oil and ran out again to administer rites to the charred bodies. Seven alarms jammed the area with fire equipment. Ambulances lined up at makeshift morgues-a bowling alley and a vacant store-to transfer bodies to hospitals...
...Moslems and 8,000 angry Europeans jammed the main square. Some Moslems, on order of their employers, held up banners reading "Algeria null but it was the Europeans who did most of the shouting. A valiant half-dozen Moslems suddenly raised a sign inscribed "Vive De Gaulle!" It was torn from their hands three times while the police looked...
...moment," the editorial concluded, "groups of Southern electors are on record as bombastically bragging that their states' mandates in the matter of casting of electoral votes need not be obeyed. At this very moment one of the South's truly civilized and gracious cities, New Orleans, is torn by ugly racial strife openly encouraged by those sworn to uphold the laws. Should the Confederacy be established, such shenanigans would be of no more than parochial interest, to be regarded by the 37 United States in the same light as revolts in Iran . . . The Southerners could buy our automobiles...
...most frightening news pictures of the year have come not from the "strife-torn" Congo, but from the cultural capital of the American South. The good women of New Orkans, who so fear four small girls that they must shout obscenities at those who fear ignorance more, may well turn more stomachs and cause more alarm than any massaore at Sharpeville...