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Emergency Roost. Cautious LeMay waited until pictorial proof was in before he issued his report: "This fire left nothing but twisted, tumbled-down rubble in its path. . . . The area totally destroyed . . . covers a total of 422,500,000 square feet, which is approximately 9,700 acres, or 15 square miles." Half a dozen key installations such as railroad stations and oil plants were destroyed, as well as "hundreds of small business establishments directly concerned with the war industry, many important administrative buildings and other thousands of home industries...
...liked to sit up into the small hours with a brilliant circle of friends ? Oliver Goldsmith, David Garrick, Sir Joshua Reynolds, William Hogarth ? while James Boswell feverishly memorized his conversation. Johnson ruled the roost with a rod of iron. In return for his wit and brilliant common sense, his friends endured his incredible rudeness and prejudices...
...Hull doesn't recognize his chickens coming home to roost. He makes vague statements, then blames newspapers for reading various meanings into them. If he were specific, only the truth would appear in the press...
...years had Vesuvius erupted so violently. In Bari, 130 miles across the Italian boot, daylight darkened with dust, householders turned on lights, chickens went to roost. In the Bay of Naples, shipmasters worried lest quake and tidal wave follow the eruption. Along the road to Salerno, peasants wore metal pots on their heads to ward off falling cinders; ashes 18 inches deep blocked traffic, caved in roofs. But nowhere was the earth's inner wrath more terrible than high on the mountain's scarred slope...
...politicos were concerned. The issues closest to the hearts and stomachs of the two million hard-pressed people were still the economic and social problems of living jampacked into 3,435 square miles of an unindustrialized, one-crop country. Likeliest candidate for the new governorship was Roost-Ruler Marin, who has maintained his prestige by plugging for social and economic reform...