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Then there were sudden complications. McCullaugh's son-in-law, 22-year-old William Hopkins, had driven up with his wife in another automobile. He ran across the pavement yelling, "What's the matter, Pop?" Jacobs ordered the son-in-law into the back seat. But before McCullaugh could start the car, the two wives came running up. One saw the pistol and screamed...
Some optical ghosts are common: the ordinary mirages which nearly everyone has seen. Commonest of all is "water-in-the-road," which is caused by a thin layer of warm air above sun-heated pavement. The two layers (cold and dense above, hot and less dense below) "refract"* upward the light that reaches them from the distant sky. A motorist sees shining water (really sky) lying in the road. In hot deserts this sort of mirage is extremely deceptive...
...doctors attending last week's assembly of the International College of Surgeons in Madrid, one of the most interesting exhibits was a one-legged man who was darting around a stone pavement, cutting intricate figures on roller skates. He had been fitted with an artificial leg, and taught to use it, by Dr. Henry H. Kessler of Newark...
...awesome power. The suction of the receding waters pulled huge chunks of muck from the levees. On the Omaha shore, the river forced its way into sewer outlets and gushed out with enough strength to lift a truck-trailer off the street and to buckle 120 feet of concrete pavement. Army engineers quickly dropped a lattice of steel I-beams across the sewer outlets, then jammed up the barrier with sandbags by the thousands. It worked...
...gunmen driving a stolen car were splashed across the pavement on Memorial Drive in front of Leverett House at 1:45 a.m. this morning after a chase by police resulted in a thunderous wreck...