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While Hurricane Hazel buffeted Washington one day last fall, a man appeared on the roof of the U.S. Capitol, and struggled to the flagpole over the west entrance. Working in the wind and rain, he ran down the American flag, took a brand-new one from a box and ran it up the staff. Then he quickly lowered it, raised the old flag and, clutching the new one, crept back downstairs. All year long, U.S. Capitol policemen go through this same ritual. They are fulfilling requests from Congressmen for flags that have "flown over the Capitol." Police Private...
...Facto. In Danville, ILL., Mrs. Hazel Franklin Lewis, seeking a-refund of income taxes, filed a brief in federal court without the aid of counsel, arguing that since an amendment is denned as a change for the better and not for the worse, the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, which gives Congress power to collect taxes, is unconstitutional...
...Sheree North, a modern-day cootch dancer who made a big hit in Broadway's Hazel Flagg (TIME, Feb. 23, 1953), and who has been described as having a "ball-and-socket pelvis," learned from a federal court m Los Angeles that two of her early films (now popular in the stag-party circuit) were not, as the Post Office suggested, "obscene, lewd and lascivious." Said Judge Ernest A. Tolin: "To say the films (How to Be an Exotic Dancer, The Waste-Basket Blues) have no reference to sex would be naive in the ultimate . The movements...
Wind & Flame. The following day Hazel made her crashing entrance into the U.S., ripping at fishing piers and crumpling bungalows along the Carolina coast. Eighty big Navy vessels fled to sea from Norfolk, Va., while military planes scrambled for safe airports as far away as Kansas. In Washington the General Services Administration, prudent and economical, ordered flags hauled down from most federal buildings; one left up on the Capitol was whipped to shreds. Chicken houses in rural Maryland collapsed by the hundreds, and incubator stoves set the wreckage on fire. The windy night was rosy with flame, and terrified, liberated...
...over the water) rescued many from the rooftop-dotted waters of the Humber and Don Rivers. But the drowned and killed totaled at least 66, and damage in Ontario was estimated at $100 million. By the time cold currents over Hudson Bay finally put an ice pack on Tourist Hazel, the eighth hurricane of the season had blown up into the year's worst, and the autumn storm season itself was the worst in a decade...