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Last time I was home a hot petition was covering Linden from Eastern Ave. to Salem St. Seems that the local two-engine fire station had been condemned, was to be torn down and a larger one built in the next district to service both communities...
...ready ahead of time, dressed appropriately in ankle-length black dress and long black cape, for her audience with Pope Pius XII. The Pope talked to her for exactly the customary 30 minutes, had kind words for her husband's concern for Argentine underprivileged, his aid to war-torn countries of Europe, his contributions to papal charities. At interview's end, the Pope gave her a handsome rosary. Then Evita went on to visit the Borgia apartments (which are still haunted, Italians say, by the ghosts of libertine Pope Alexander VI and his daughter Lucrezia), and to pray...
...vanguard of rescuers plunged through a half mile of brush and swamp, entered a boggy, smoke-filled ravine. Ahead of them lay a clearing, littered with splintered and uprooted trees. The trees were burning, and there were flickering pools of flame on the gasoline-soaked ground. Nothing moved. Torn sections of dura-luminum, shards of glass, smoldering seat cushions, broken instruments lay scattered for a hundred yards, but there was nothing to suggest the great machine's shape or purpose. Rags of clothing, women's purses hung with shocking festiveness high in trees. For a hundred feet...
...probed in the wreckage, interviewed eyewitnesses and searched the country round about for an explanation of the crash. They soon found a part of the answer. A quarter of a mile from the crash they found pieces of the plane's tail surfaces. Almost certainly they had been torn off in flight. What had shorn them off? CAB inspectors were not yet ready to say at week's end. Many an airplane pilot guessed that a propeller had failed, that a blade had hurtled back and cut into the tail surfaces. This theory had to be discarded when...
...Today the progress of science . . . has torn to pieces our agelong habits...