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Rain & Flood. The Monongahela, Allegheny and Ohio Rivers went over their banks as the storm made an evening passage, northbound, through central Pennsylvania. In and near Wheeling, W. Va., a city of 58,000 built partly on an island in the Ohio, 2,400 families had to leave their homes while others moved furniture to upper floors and waited it out. Inevitably, in upstate New York, the hurricane blew down a theater marquee with signs reading, GONE WITH THE WIND. Felling trees, collapsing roofs and downing wires, the winds brought death to 82 persons and wrecked more than half...
...special train to reassure the hundreds of homeless. On the way back to Cairo, his train stopped at neighboring Kafr ez-Zaiyat. As he stood on the back platform, acknowledging the cheers of 50,000 local fellahin, disaster paid a return visit. The Cairo-Alexandria Express roared down the northbound track, cutting a bloody swath through the crowd, killing 28. Weeping, the President walked into the crowd to comfort the wounded and console relatives of the dead...
...know." "But." answered Pella, "it was too bitter a pill to swallow." De Gasperi, who had worked for months to keep party and Pella together, replied sadly: "If you only, knew how many bitter pills you. Pella, have made me swallow." Within 24 hours. Pella boarded a northbound train for Biello and his aged mother. "Now," said he. "I can do some skiing...
...daily groups of 100 blue-clad U.N. prisoners crossed the line to freedom, while groups of 500 enemy P.W.s crossed in the opposite direction. The Communists had erected a welcome sign twice as big as the U.N. sign, reading: RETURN TO THE ARMS OF YOUR FATHERLAND. Many of the northbound enemy P.W.s, carefully outfitted by the U.N. before they started north, had wrapped rags around their heads and otherwise made themselves disreputable. Red cameramen took their pictures, and the Red propaganda mills called them "mutilated, emaciated wrecks...
After the Matlocks started south, a northbound trailer truck driven by John Scarantino passed through Washington. Three miles outside Washington, Scarantino (whose New Jersey driving rights were revoked last year when he failed to appear in court on a charge of passing on a curve) swerved into the left-hand lane to avoid a truck parked on the shoulder ahead of him. He saw the oncoming Matlock car too late. All of the Matlocks except Raymond were killed outright; Raymond died next morning, on his birthday...