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...time the Journal-American found the bus driver, one Morris Brower, a day had passed and Sarno was the accepted hero. When questioned, however, Brower said that he had caught the child, who rolled out of his arms, hit the ground and was then scooped up by Rescuer Sarno. Brower announced that he had witnesses to prove his story. Sarno said he had witnesses...
...black South Africa lives. Some fetched water from filth-encrusted boreholes that had served the whole of Albertynsville; others, ladling out Red Cross soup, porridge and stew to matchstick-legged Negro children, discovered that never in their lives had these children tasted anything so nourishing. Said one white rescuer afterward: "The place had no drainage, no sanitation, no streets and no lighting. Outside the houses, there were open latrines, pits and great piles of rotting rubbish, swarming with millions of swollen flies. Albertynsville," he added solemnly, "must not be allowed to rise again...
Housewives at their TV sets saw Robert Jones walk slowly to the window where his father stood. They saw a rescuer jump to the ledge and grab him. They saw him dragged into the building as he screamed, "I don't want to die! I don't want to die!" They saw him jabbed with a hypodermic and tied into a straitjacket...
After the Fact. In St. Paul, Minn., Richard Starkweather, 19, managed to avoid injury when he fainted at the wheel of his car and came to a stop against a curb, fell out on to the pavement when a rescuer opened the door, and had to be rushed to a hospital for treatment of a head injury...
...first rescue teams to fly through the clouds of volcanic ash to an airstrip near Lamington last week reported at least 50 square miles of formerly jungle-clad hills now a grey-brown desert of pumice dust caking into stone. Said one rescuer: "It was like being on another planet...The haze of steam and smoke issuing from Lamington made the whole thing a nightmare." Said Australian Government Official Claude Champion: "Native bodies were everywhere. Dead natives were hanging in the stripped branches of every tree, and many were caught in the forks of the trees. Apparently they died there...