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Jose Saltiel, 56, was shaving in his two-story house in Las Lomas when "the ground started shaking and the bathroom appeared to be swirling." He grabbed his son and stood in a doorway. He later went to his office, but, he said, "I was scared. I thought a bomb had been dropped...
TIME Reporter Andrea Dabrowski was pouring coffee in the kitchen of her apartment in the center of the capital. "I thought I was sick," she said. "There was this terrible dizzy feeling. Some way, I stumbled to the doorway. The buildings across the street were swaying, really swaying. It was like being rocked in a boat. There were all these sounds of cracking and crackling, and the electric lines popping. I yelled out, 'God save me!' " The quake knocked many of the city's radio and television stations off the air. One exception was Channel 13, which provided the world...
...Niles, Ohio, Toni Bonanno stepped out of an office building to confront a tornado roaring down the street. "Oh, God, please help me," she gasped. As she ducked in a doorway, the blast blew out the windows and tore off the roof. But she was unhurt. The twister cut a 200-ft.-wide swath through 3 1/2 miles of the town, killing at least eight. "There's nothing standing," said Niles Resident Betty Pompo. "Everything is completely wiped out. The people are walking around in circles...
...firemen in black-and-yellow gear crept on their arms and knees along the sidewalk, hoses coiling behind them, police in blue jumpsuits ran from doorway to doorway and, as some observers claimed, paused to return gunfire from the Move house with an array of shotguns and automatic weapons. Cameraman Pete Kane of Channel 10, a local CBS affiliate, watched the action from an upper story window just 100 yds. from Move's headquarters. "Debris was flying everywhere," he says. "Entire trees were exploding in fire." As night fell, the flames tinged the Philadelphia horizon red. Finally...
...also harder, because college officials weren't used to student anger, and they fought back with police truncheons and disciplinary action. Now demonstrations have been accepted; they're almost a part of the system. When the students block his office doorway, Bok works at the Kennedy School until they leave. It is all very decorous--those kids will have their protest, pay them no mind. Kind of ruins the point of the protest, doesn't it? Unless of course, you care more about how the protest feels than what it does...