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With roads closed by landslides, doctors, nurses and medical equipment were flown in by the Air Force, the Navy and the Red Cross. Stunned people huddled in small groups in the streets, fearing another quake. Beds dangled out of two hotels whose walls were shorn away. Families had been torn apart. Sobbed one woman: "God just took the middle right out of my family and left me the two eldest and the two youngest...
...Republicans had hardly packed up and moved out of Chicago before the Democratic vanguard began moving in among the debris of torn signs, discarded campaign buttons and bedraggled bunting to prepare for the Democratic Convention opening next Monday...
California Conquest (Columbia). Between 1825 and 1841, Mexico-ruled California was torn by internal strife, and Russia, France, England and the U.S. were trying to take over the territory. Dramatizing this little-known phase of history, California Conquest adds a dash of Technicolor and several dashes of dramatic license to the facts. Cornel Wilde is a romantic Spanish don who is in favor of U.S. annexation. To prevent the Russians from worming their way into the orange groves, he and tomboyish Teresa Wright work their way into the bandit forces of toothy, grinning Alfonso Bedoya...
...turned up, bearing banners: "Solly helped us, now let us help him." According to the police, they also brought a car loaded with empty bottles. Soon after Sachs began to speak, police charged forward, armed with revolvers and truncheons. While screaming women battered them with sticks, bottles, and legs torn off tables and chairs, the police dragged Sachs inside the City Hall, barricaded the main door, and then hustled their captive through a side door into a waiting patrol wagon. No shots were fired, but 51 women and 15 policemen were injured...
...into an aquarium. Then she unlocked a bookcase, removed Volumes 2 and 4 of Strumpel's textbooks of medicine, tore them to shreds and stuffed them in the fish tank. Lorenz returned to find fuses blown, empty book covers on the floor, and his sea anemones tangled in torn paper...