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...Cooling of America" raised hopes in my expatriate circles. Maybe, we thought, the dawn was breaking for true involvement, for serious discussion, for an end to sloganeering. But there remains this deep dilemma: while the country cools in a political sense, it continues running hot in the sphere of personal safety. We are disheartened by the cold facts that show crime rates climbing up and up, as unstoppable as the worst type of cancer. It is hopeless, hopeless, hopeless...
...dawn promised a placid day: the first rays of a sun that would warm the Los Angeles basin to a summery 82° glimmered in the east. Then, at 41 seconds past 6, the earth rocked, jolting 10 million Southern Californians awake-and into instant wonderment or terror...
...serenity of nearly all humans when the ground moves; the earth is, after all, everyone's womb and tomb. So the forecast of worse quakes to come troubled even calamity-conditioned Californians as they slowly cleared the debris and tried to forget the terror that had started at dawn...
Even during the Great Depression, none of Houston's banks failed. Last month, however, the queues began forming each day before dawn outside the defunct Sharpstown State Bank as depositors applied for payouts from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The agency was making good on accounts -but only up to $20,000 each. About $16 million seemed, for the time being, lost to depositors...
...powerful earthquake shook Southern California at dawn yesterday, causing at least 30 deaths, injuring scores, and damaging hospital buildings, highways, bridges and other facilities...