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...moved slowly on like figures from a military past, re-entering the past. Armored cars and soldiers on motorcycles began to stream by. Then three tanks, more armored cars, 42 light tanks, 18 medium tanks, another big batch of armored cars, trucks carrying pontoon bridges, kitchen trucks, trucks drawing six-inch guns, eight truckloads of anti-aircraft guns-the machines of war. They went by fast-15, 30, 40 miles an hour. The pavement shook. The afternoon air thickened and blued with gasoline fumes...
...Republican Elmer Atkinson on Beale Avenue. Anyone who tried to enter either place was frisked. Holy Joe declared that they were looking for dope. Negroes who protested were arrested, fined. Hundreds were searched and at least one hundred were run in for carrying knives with blades longer than the six-inch maximum allowed by law. Twenty colored kindergartners were lined up, pawed over by the Crump cops. Frisked in front of Atkinson's was Father Bertrand Kock, white pastor of Mrs. Atkinson's church. Police patted his Franciscan robe, made him take off his shoes...
Boyer hurried down the mountain to summon aid from Seattle. Through the afternoon, night and next morning, Faye Plank sat alone on a six-inch ledge, fighting sleep and listening to the noisy growl of the waterfalls. She had to watch the rope and hold it jammed in a crevice with her boot heels. Said she: "I could hear Anne down below. At first she was just moaning. But when it got dark she began calling. . . . Night lasted a long time, but the early morning was the worst. . . ." At 10:30 that morning, sleepless Karl Boyer and the rescuers...
...Berkeley, Calif., Henry Atkinson reluctantly drew a bead on his ailing cat, muttered: "This will hurt me more than it will you." He pulled the trigger; the gun exploded. The cat was unscathed. To hospital went Atkinson with a six-inch metal fragment in his chest...
...Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Co. (subsidiary of Pullman Inc.) was tooling up a division of its Butler (Pa.) plant to handle a $3,000,000 Allied order for 200,000 six-inch shell forgings (complete except for powder...