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...Blizzard's Wake...
Five hours after the crash the plane radioed its position. Search planes of the U.S., France, Italy and Britain took off in the teeth of a howling blizzard. At the end of the second day, a faint message from the survivors was heard in Grenoble: "It is urgent. We want to live." By the third day, more than 100 planes of six nations swooped through the jagged mountain passes, buffeted by gales and dense clouds. Up from Geneva in a B-17 flew Brigadier General Ralph Snavely, whose wife was in the crashed plane, but for six hours bad weather...
...overcast, and a great stillness fell over the eastern Colorado plains. After that a freezing wind rose, banged barn doors and snatched at the smoke from lonely ranch houses. It grew dark, and salt-like snow began hissing across leagues of sere buffalo grass. Then, for 48 hours, a blizzard-the worst in 33 years-moaned down out of Wyoming with nothing to stop it but fence posts and cottonwood trees...
Meanwhile full winter descended, without warning, on the Rocky Mountain states. It began snowing in Utah, Nevada and Montana, and the worst blizzard in a decade roared down on Colorado. Hunters were trapped, cars stalled, trains delayed and the intermountain sugar-beet harvest was almost completely disrupted...
...eight months the police, alerted by druggists, tried to track him through the blizzard of fake prescriptions. François eluded them. One day, unable to get eubine, he dosed himself massively with a soporific, and dozed on a public bench. François landed in a public hospital. There his story came...