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Then ambulance sirens sounded. A babble of scared talk sprang up, and bystanders began to eye the damage. At first the damage looked ruinous. Tons of brick and rubble had cascaded down off old" buildings near Seattle's Pioneer Square, smashing parked automobiles. Great chunks of stonework had been flipped off the state capitol buildings at Olympia. Store fronts and brickwork in dozens of towns had collapsed, a radio tower had snapped, and hundreds of buildings showed cracks in walls and floors...
...stated that the communist creed was not a foreign importation but sprang up from "native conditions." To say that it was foreign would be "contrary to everything Marxism stands...
...lowering night two weeks ago, Mary Cheever put her car in the garage after a P.T.A. meeting. At the mouth of the dingy alley next to her apartment house, a man in a long-visored cap sprang at her. He clawed for her shoulder bag, clubbed her on the head with a pistol, shot her in the back. She screamed three times and died in an ambulance ten minutes later...
...both blacks and Indians. Last week in the Union's third largest city, Durban, where some 124,000 of the white masters live dangerously close to native quarters teeming with twice as many blacks and about 110,000 Indians, the smouldering resentment of South Africa's Negroes sprang to flame. Inexplicably, they turned it against the only people more oppressed than themselves...
...wanted man, clad only in a shirt, sprang from behind some bushes at twilight and accosted Mrs. Charles Mozier, directing some obscene language...