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Whlie about 200 students watched, Cambridge firemen sent a ladder to the roof of C-entry, turned a spotlight on the building and ran a hose through the front doorway before discovering what had happened...
...first crack of a 21-gun salute greeted the princess when she appeared in the doorway. She wore a slate-blue dress, matching velvet hat, mink jacket and black laced, high-heeled shoes (the first of many expected fashion hints). Followed by Prince Philip, in a Royal Navy lieutenant commander's uniform, she walked down the steep steps to be greeted by Viscount Alexander and Prime Minister Louis St.-Laurent. Smiling, wholly composed, Elizabeth quickly reviewed an R.C.A.F. honor guard, then with her husband boarded a black Chrysler convertible which swung slowly past the cheering crowd to a special...
Miss Inselbuch was the first to realize the danger. Her sleep was broken sometime after 3 a.m., and when she looked up from her bed, she noticed a tall, thin figure standing in the doorway, silhouetted by a hallway light...
Guns cracked all over town. A boy stepped out of a doorway holding up a five-peso note; a bullet dropped him and a grinning bandit pocketed the money. Lighting home-made grenades with cigarettes, the bandits routed out hidden villagers. Once the town was subdued, Comandante Tulio, whose well-formed features and steady voice carried his authority, proceeded with executions of leading Conservatives. Three young boys were included among the victims. "They are Godos [Conservatives] and will grow up," a bandit growled in explanation...
Violence at Midnight. Around midnight the mob got bolder. A dozen or so young bloods rushed the cops at the doorway to the apartment house, pushed past them, smashed in the front door, clambered upstairs to the Clark apartment. Out the window, to the accompaniment of cheers from the crowd, went all of the Clarks' furniture, including a piano. Then the young vandals tore out door and window jambs, gouged holes in the walls, ripped out light fixtures, smashed radiators, a refrigerator and stove, bashed in the toilet bowl. For good measure they ripped up two apartments below...