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...Europe in decades.* In Bucharest, at least 500 died and 2,600 were injured, and there were fears that the death toll in all of Rumania might reach into the thousands. The oil-producing center of Ploesti, 35 miles north of Bucharest, also suffered damage, and the seismic spasm affected Rumania's neighbors. In Bulgaria, 20 people were reported killed, and more than 100 were injured in Yugoslavian border towns. Chandeliers swayed as far away as Rome and Naples; in Moscow, buildings trembled and pictures shook off walls...
...Brown game with ice on a strained ankle. After nursing it that night, she returned to action the next day, but could not play her best. Swimmer Maura Costin left the pool after her heat of the 100-yd. butterfly shaking from the pain of a muscle spasm in her injury-riddled back. She also competed after the injury, with the help of massages from assistant coach Paula Newman, but Costin, like Hart, could not perform...
...methodical massacre in the lawyers' office was one of several grisly episodes in a savage spasm of violence in Spain last week, the worst in recent memory. It claimed a total of ten lives, including those of three policemen who were shot down by unidentified gunmen in working-class suburbs of Madrid. A purportedly leftist terrorist group called GRAPO (an acronym in Spanish for Oct. 1 Antifascist Resistance Groups) claimed responsibility for the police killings, but the initial bloody attacks of the week, including that against the Communist lawyers, were evidently the work of right-wing extremists. Said...
...small-time cheats, emeritus champions of the art of getting by," a talent that he says is attributed to the people of southern Italy. Japan, he added, is "a superindustrialized country, where the myths of superproduction have inserted themselves in the daily reality to the point of spasm. It does not know or accept anything but the frightening morality of integral efficiency, which is the squalid religion of modern times...
...story named no source and was instantly and vehemently denied by everybody involved. Nonetheless, it caused the most violent spasm yet in the seemingly endless agonies of the pound. The story, front-paged on Oct. 24 by London's Sunday Times, implied that the U.S. Government and the International Monetary Fund would insist that the British government let the pound sink to $1.50 against the U.S. dollar as a condition for a desperately needed $3.9 billion IMF loan to Britain. U.S. Secretary of the Treasury William Simon, IMF officials and British Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey all protested...