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...Massachusetts' 17th Legislative District (southwestern Boston), Real-Estate Man Chester K. Wickes was trudging along in a field of 18 Democratic candidates for state representative. He had never run for office before, and seemed to have little chance to win. But when Hur ricane Carol swept through Boston a fortnight ago, Candidate Wickes remembered that story about an ill wind...
After the sneak attack by Hurricane Carol (TIME, Sept. 13), which took 68 lives and destroyed half a billion dollars' worth of New England property, the entire Atlantic seaboard was anxiously alerted for the next big seasonal storm to come rolling north. There was not long to wait. Before New England had half mopped up the mess left by Carol, Hurricane Dolly roared harmlessly by. Then came Edna...
Like her older sister Carol, Hurricane Edna proved to be a dangerous ondine, full of feminine caprices and packing a 125-mile-per-hour wallop. When first sighted last week, she was off the Bahamas, churning like a top and headed northwest. For five days she minced slowly northward in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast, while along the shore hurricane flags went up, storm shutters slammed down, and everybody waited breathlessly. HURRICANE TO HIT HEAD-ON UNLESS
When Small Business Administrator Wendell B. (for Burton) Barnes, 45, was vacationing with his wife and four children near Jacksonville, Fla. a fortnight ago, Hurricane Carol began kicking up off the Florida coast. Right away, Barnes packed his family into the car and headed north. He reached his desk just in time. One of Barnes's major tasks is to make emergency loans in disaster areas. The morning after Carol smashed across the New England coast, Barnes declared disaster areas in six states (New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine...
...furious winds spiraling toward Carol's center piled up the water in a wave-topped mound that swept with the hurricane toward the helpless coast. When it finally hit, the wind-driven water had nowhere to go. Dammed up by wind pressure, it submerged the breakwaters, sandspits and islands, covering them deeply enough to allow the great waves to ride into harbors and bays...