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...uprooted trees. It mangled a Ferris wheel in an amusement park, then slanted northeast-straight into the city's center. There, in a 3-sq.-mi. sector, years ago St. Louis' "silk stocking'' district, the twister changed its swath-cutting pattern and skip-bombed its havoc: it ripped up some of the same buildings that were wrecked in the St. Louis tornado of 1927 (which killed 78), dropped at random like a cleaver in some blocks, spewed rubble into great heaps. And then, perhaps five minutes after it had begun, the tornado snuffed itself...
...Pleasure of His Company. Cyril Ritchard as an overprivileged, middle-aged delinquent who plays havoc with his daughter's behavior patterns...
CARACAS, Venezuela, Feb. 13--With tears in his eyes, Romulo Betancourt took the oath as president today with a pledge of economy and democratic rule to repair what he called the havoc of a decade of dictatorship in Venezuela...
...Pleasure of His Company. Cyril Ritchard as an overprivileged, middle-aged delinquent who plays havoc with his daughter's behavior patterns...
...Absolute Chaos." The battle of the airlines raised havoc with holiday traffic. T.W.A., which put on 85 extra sections to carry the Christmas overflow, said its ticket counters at New York's Idlewild Airport were "absolute chaos." United Air Lines flights were booked solidly for ten days in advance. National Airlines was flying 4,000 passengers daily-double its normal load-to and from Miami, some of them in the 707 jet that it has leased from Pan American. National leased eight other planes from such faraway carriers as Hawaiian Airlines, put employees on six-and seven-day weeks...