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Campbell was in the center of the main tornado that tore a half-mile-wide swath through Inverness. For perhaps a minute, he sat in suspended motion as much of the world about him caved in or exploded outward. "One house suddenly came apart like a dollhouse," he recalls. "The roof flew up, the walls spread out, and I could see two elderly persons, colored folks, crouched inside. Then everything sprang right back on top of them and they disappeared...
...traditional civil rights liberals to admit that the Administration's policy-or non-policy-toward black Americans possesses any saving virtues at all. Yet the Nixon stance by its very neglect, its lowering of expectations, may have contributed to forcing the black movement both in on itself and outward along new paths. Following the legal civil rights victories of the past two decades, blacks would have struck out in those directions anyway; the deaf ear in Washington simply accelerated their push into the political and economic arena, where they are rapidly learning how to use the system...
...testimony is both graphic and moving, and it takes two forms. There is an outward and an inward questioning, both of which led to the self-proclaimed "radicalization" of the defendants. The outward questioning consists of an account of conditions in other countries for which the Catonsville Nine hold the U.S. morally culpable. For example, Defendant George Mische testifies...
Concluding his talk with an explanation and justification of the space program as a quest for knowledge, Aldrin said. "Nations must expand and look outward. We cannot be concerned only with our welfare problems. That is what nations have characteristically done in the past. That is when they crumble and fall apart, and we can't afford to do that...
...county's nearly seven million residents awoke to find their beds shaking, windows shattering, furniture flipped over, chimneys crumbled and dishes on shelves crashed. On some old structures roofs fell in and walls fell outward...