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...wildly alarmed chain of neighborhood weeklies declared that Communists were trying to seize Detroit's soot-blackened city hall, shrilled: "If the true picture could be told, patriots would not sleep nights." Handfuls of small cards fluttered one day into downtown streets. Sample: "FitzGerald Says the Negroes Need Protection! Protection Against Whom? What do YOU Think...
...know surprisingly little about clouds, which were not even named or classified until 1803 (by an English druggist named Luke Howard). They know how clouds and fogs (clouds on the ground) are formed-by the cooling of humid air, which condenses water vapor on particles of dust, pollen or soot in the air. They also know what a cloud or fog is made of-water droplets (or ice crystals) so small that an 1,800-cu. ft. block of dense fog contains only one-seventh of a glass of water. But many questions, such as what makes a cloud turn...
...Delayed-action bombs had not yet exploded when the camera clicked, but incendiaries had started a network of fires. The U.S. Liberators dropped 300 tons of high explosive and thousands of incendiaries from as low as 100 ft. Planes flew through sheets of flame, emerged covered with soot, while gunners dueled with rooftop anti-aircraft and saw people waving from the streets. Losses were high - but so was the damage: five of the biggest refineries of Ploesti 's 13 were badly damaged, a sixth destroyed...
Years ago Pir of Pagaro got angry at a boy favorite, Ibrahim, of his court at Pir-Jo-Goth. Pir had Ibrahim's eyelashes and eyebrows plucked out, his face blackened with soot, and padlocked him in a box which was opened only when he was fed. Ibrahim escaped, only to be hunted with hounds and imprisoned again in a smaller box. Finally three concubines told the police about Ibrahim. The found him in his box, "looking like a ghost, pale as death, and smelling like a polecat...
Before the Revolution, icons were still gathering soot in dim church recesses. Many were repainted six or seven times, defaced with plaster, chalk and glue relief. Their artistic worth escaped even most Russians. The few attempts made at restoration were restricted to dubbing in missing hands and faces. One of the Soviet Government's first acts was to set up the National Central Restoration Workshops, which are still busy cleaning off the accumulation of centuries. Occasionally a bearded prophet, scraped off, becomes a sweet-faced Virgin...