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...clear, cool evening last June, Diane and Herbert Rang were married in Los Angeles. After the ceremony at the West Adams Presbyterian Church, the young couple, both of Korean descent, led the way into an adjoining hall for the wedding banquet. There 300 guests sipped fruit punch and consumed platefuls of traditional Korean fare: tuna, popped rice, olives, tea and rice cakes...
...carrier who must have transmitted the typhoid. Five investigators and two nurses got in touch with all wedding guests they could trace, had them checked for infection. But many people at the party had just drifted in for the fun, and their names were unknown. As the investigators rang doorbells, three more guests came down with typhoid...
...went to call on a government official who lives on a hill at the end of a lonely dirt road not far from the Aurora airport. He spoke frankly about local politics, and agreed that President Arbenz's political future was not too bright. About midnight, the phone rang. It was a crony saying that the city's lights had gone out. As he spoke, the lights dimmed in our house, then went out. The night was pitch black. It was Guatemala's first apagoÓn (blackout). Said my friend: 'Perhaps the thing we were...
...articulating very, very slowly as though I were talking to an idiot child." But Brooks only sighed wearily and said: "It's no good, old boy. I can't understand a word." By the Numbers. Brooks "explained some weeks later . . . that he had been asleep when I rang up and thought I was [someone named] Reggie!" He also tried to atone by teaching Agent Coward a new code consisting "entirely of numbers" and of such awful complexity that "if ever I had been captured by the Gestapo they would certainly have had a tough time getting...
Wall of Water. After a night of cloudburst, sheriff's deputies roamed the little (pop. 2,885) cattle town of Ozona, 75 miles north of the border, to cry a warning before dawn. Church bells rang and sirens wailed, but too many people stayed to wait and watch for water in normally dry Johnson's Draw. At 5 a.m. the water came; a 30-ft.-high wall that crashed through town, carried away houses and cars, killed 15 people...