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...Former Friends of Arthur Schlesinger Jr. invite you to A Gala! Joyous! Exultant! Celebration of his Departure from the Government of the United States of America and the Opening of his New Offices, CASH (Center for the Advanced Study of History). Dinner and Dancing ... 7 o'clock till dawn . . . Many Door Prizes-a Favorable Mention in his History of the Kennedy Administration . . . Come as you were...
...outside Jacksonville, her arms laden with grocery sacks. She dropped her purse, and as she bent to retrieve it, a car roared by; shots rang out, and Mrs. Chappell fell dead. Carlos Gonzales, standing outside a nearby bar, was shot in the head at the same time. Before dawn, a dozen buildings were fire-bombed by rampaging Negro youths, and cops found themselves using a new emergency radio call: "516," meaning "juveniles with incendiaries...
...hills ringing Los Angeles swept the parching devil winds. Humidity dropped below 1% ; it was drier than a desert. The brilliant colors of sumac, greasewood and wild lilac had long faded to dusty brown, and the chaparral crackled and clacked like desiccated bones in a bowl. Then, just before dawn one day last week, the nightmare that Angelenos have well learned to dread happened again. The brush in the hills, ignited by power lines torn to the ground by whistling winds, exploded into flame. With incredible speed, fire raced through the white-collar suburbs of Los Angeles-into Glendale...
That is what Martin Greenhouse, 39, did one day last week, and he was tooling along Manhattan's East River Drive on his way to his job as electrical supervisor at Brooklyn's Navy Yard just as dawn was breaking around 6 o'clock. There was a slight glaze of icy snow on the road, and at a turn just south of 96th Street, Martin's car skidded into a lazy U-turn...
...King's African) Rifles First Battalion seized the arms at Colito Barracks and arrested their European officers and NCOs. Soldiers then proceeded to surround the State House and to take over the radio station, airport, telegraph office, and other key points throughout the city. Several ministers were arrested before dawn, but President Nyerere and Vice President Rashidi Kawawa escaped...