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...stubbed little toe-the result of indulging in the unusual pastime of trying to place-kick a hefty chunk of cinder block-caused University of Washington Sophomore Anne Quast, 18, considerable pain, but she limped through the 36-hole final of the women's Western amateur championship at the Guyan Country Club in Huntington, W. Va. to beat Defending Champion Pat Lesser...
...state officials approached the bleak, cinder-block house, a hostile crowd stared at them coldly. Waiting for them in the doorway stood Vera Black, a tiny, short-haired woman of 42 and one of Leonard Black's three wives. In the house behind Vera, her eight children waited, dressed in their Sunday best...
...Casey walked to the batter's box brandishing five bats as if he were going to knock down the ballpark. The stands booed. Casey stepped to the plate, waited until the pitcher was about to throw, then called time. Elaborately he went through the motions of getting a cinder out of his eye. The Brooklyn stands roared with fury...
...when they arrived at the village, they first noticed what had survived. A reinforced cinder-block house and another made of precast concrete slabs still stood, less than a mile from the blast. One iso-ft. guyed radio tower was erect. A 15,4000-gal. tank of liquefied petroleum gas was intact; only its handrail was bent. Shelves of groceries seemed unharmed. A power substation was 95% operable. The telephone system showed little damage. The blast had blown out fires that had been started by the searing heat of the explosion. Underground gas lines to houses less than a mile...
...Dunster House Committee, considering plans to improve the appearance of its cinder-block-walled cellar playroom feels "as I do, that this is a very exciting thing, and wants it to be aesthetically beautiful," added Charles Kletzch, Dunster House Librarian...