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...team, hitless for eight and two-thirds innings, poured across 23 runs in the top of the ninth and smashed a helpless Tocsin squad, 23 to 2. The disarmed Tocsin ten preferred to crawl on its knees to the big Red dugout rather than be annihilated in the CRIMSON holocaust...
...time to abandon this venerable defense (the term dates back to 1581). "The loose use of the name of the Deity in the realm of the law should not be a matter of our approval," said Justice Michael A. Musmanno. "There is something shocking in attributing any tragedy or holocaust to God. The ways of the Deity so surpass the understanding of man that it is not the province of man to pass judgment upon what may be beyond human comprehension...
...manner of the world's ending today was not universally agreed upon by the experts. Indians prepared for earthquakes, a devastating flood was predicted for the East coast of the United States, and astrology charts foretold an earth "bathed in the blood of thousands of kings." Rumors of a holocaust were in the air, but this was too close to possible to become a popular theory...
...part of a Picasso etching, a $7,000 soup tureen and her private Tiffany's, Zsa Zsa Gabor salvaged little more than sketches of two former husbands and some love letters ("They were hotter than the fire"). Like everything else in Southern California, reactions to the high-caste holocaust constituted a weird and wonderful display of human idiosyncrasies. Bandleader Billy Vaughn was among the 150 fire fighters injured (none of them seriously). Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Willard Libby came home to find the roof of his much-publicized $30 fallout shelter reduced to coals, stubbornly insisted: "I have more faith...
...believe in nuclear holocaust is pessimistic; to believe in conventional warfare or peace, optimistic; to say what will happen, stupidity. Perez C. Ehrich...