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...morning of Thanksgiving Day a note of genuine alarm had crept into the newspaper accounts. Doom-voiced radio announcers rushed to their microphones as the strike spread to Detroit and Washington, as it threatened to engulf New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. And then, just as the nation rose from its Thanksgiving dinners, the strike ended as abruptly as it had begun...
...days the ship crept along an invisible coast. A leather-faced man with icy blue eyes and a perpetual squint strained for the leadsman's cry. Out of the fog that shrouded the Arctic sea, the muffled call came back: "Seven fathoms. ..." Suddenly the leadsman's cry changed: "The bottom has gone away...
After dark the 35th's volunteer "baby patrol"-a French captain, an American officer and ten G.I.s-slipped across the line, sloshed across 1,000 yards of rainswept marsh, crept into the house...
Manhattan's piles of steel and stone, its solid brownstone houses stood firm, but the city's intricate, antlike pattern of existence failed. The hurricane moaned between skyscrapers in 95-mile-an-hour gusts. Water crept into the subways and trains stalled; thousands of people stayed in downtown buildings, watching the storm crash through the stone canyons. Up & down Long Island and through Westchester County huge old trees were uprooted bodily, usually falling south...
...week, after three years and ten months behind the walls, he went before the parole board for the third time. He was now 67. His ruddiness was gone, and he looked thinner; his hair was white. He talked quietly, affably, but the suspense under which he was obviously laboring crept into his voice. The board conferred, granted him his parole. Then they laid down the terms under which he can keep his freedom when he goes into the world again on Sept. 12, with a suit of clothes, $20 and a railroad ticket to Manhattan's Grand Central Station...