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...been so cold since the 1800s. Single-day records for the date were set in Washington (2°), Philadelphia (1°), St. Cloud, Minn. ( - 30°), and in nine Florida cities, including Miami (33°), Orlando (23°) and Tallahassee (14°). The cold in Florida froze perhaps 84% of the state's unharvested citrus, and the ripened vegetable crop was wiped out entirely...
...enough to save some of the cold-struck. In New York City, John Bohlman, 90, and his wife Rose, 86, had plenty of heating oil in their furnace. But the fuel pump broke; the couple, both deaf mutes, were unable to signal neighbors for help and froze to death. Near Pendleton, S.C., Margaret Swaney's new wood-stocked heater malfunctioned and started a fire; her three teen-age children were killed. Herbert Ahlstedt, 54, of Level Plains, Ala., was knocked unconscious by falling, ice-heavy tree limbs. Face down in the snow, he froze and died...
After the shots, Newton recalls, "I saw this man running toward me. I looked down and saw a gun in his right hand and froze." The man, says Newton, had "longish black hair and what I could only describe as Mediterranean features: dark skin, suntanned, but not black." The man passed within four feet of Newton, who ran in pursuit, taking two photographs from behind before the fugitive disappeared into the columned archways surrounding the square...
...night, Hall came at me with a big double-cut and the blade just snapped off the hilt of my sword. I froze, but Japes Emerson, who was playing Hall, knew immediately what to do--he jumped me. My sword went clattering away and we started wrestling on the ground. We were making the whole fight up as we went along now, and in the middle of it, I realized that if I died on my back, I couldn't make my final speech. See, I wanted to collapse during my speech--to show this great ebbing of life...
Freshman Frank Ozello tallied at 13:51 when a slickly taken free kick froze the Crimson defense, sliding the ball past a helpless Erulkar as the keeper came out to cover the pass...