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...Offhand, the picture looked like good news: two men, one a policeman, appeared to have rescued a small boy from an icy stream (see cut). But when newspaper readers looked at the caption, they learned that three-year-old Peter Shoukimas of Cranford, N.J. was dead. He had drowned in the Rahway River. His mother said that he was always slipping away to watch the river. "It utterly fascinated him," she said...
...green foothills of Mt. Hermon, lying along the Banias stream (one of the three sources of the Jordan), a sliver of Palestine is wedged between the boundaries of Syria and Lebanon. There the hills are speckled vith the orchards and fields of Jewish settlements, and their fisheries line the river. Last week 1,000 Arabs came out of Syria and Lebanon, swooped from the surrounding heights, for 3½ hours besieged the Jewish settlements of Dan and Kfar Szold, wrecked irrigation installations, and withdrew across the border only when British Lancers opened fire on them with mortars and artillery...
Suddenly, like a taut fiddle string, one of the cables snapped. The bridge floor flipped sideways, sent a stream of men, women & children cascading into the river. A few lucky ones at the bridge ends saved themselves. A few more scrambled out of the water. But most were killed on the rocks below, or were drowned in the rushing Minero...
...after lunch the governor and his aides went down to the river, below the bridge, to bathe. Hundreds of villagers gathered to see His Excellency in a bathing suit. For a better view, at least 200 of them crowded onto the bridge, 45 feet above the rushing stream...
Bicycles & Opera Bouffe. The Roman temperament had as much to do as the police with turning Act II of the Communist pageant into opera bouffe. From the suburbs each morning of the strike came a gala stream of bicycles. Cycling gallants stopped at the homes of working girls, happily wheeled them to work (as many as dared) or to the park (as all wanted). Fathers joined families in morning strolls behind baby carriages, through the Villa Borghese pines or along the slopes beside the Appian Way. All the cafes were supposed to be tight shut. Some were, but near...