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...Saypol, got Dave and Roy together at a luncheon in a restaurant in downtown Manhattan in 1952. Dave Schine turned out to be a pleasant, articulate young man with the build and features of a junior-grade Greek god. The two 25-year-olds were soon cutting a wide swath through Manhattan's best restaurants and nightclubs. Dave had plenty of money (and, for that matter, Roy was drawing down $20,000 a year from a private law partnership, in addition to his salary). More important to their palship, Dave wanted to be a Communist investigator, and he regarded...
...hundreds of homeless. On the way back to Cairo, his train stopped at neighboring Kafr ez-Zaiyat. As he stood on the back platform, acknowledging the cheers of 50,000 local fellahin, disaster paid a return visit. The Cairo-Alexandria Express roared down the northbound track, cutting a bloody swath through the crowd, killing 28. Weeping, the President walked into the crowd to comfort the wounded and console relatives of the dead...
...Moments later the entire house was ablaze. As neighbors tried to put out the fire, a brisk wind whipped the flames against the houses next door, and soon they too were burning. On the fire roared for twelve hours, through block after block of tinder-like huts, cutting a swath a mile and a half long and half a mile wide through the refugee-packed city. The cost in casualties: three dead, scores injured, 2,800 buildings destroyed and more than 28,000 made homeless...
Traditionally trained but popularly inclined, Liberace toured the nightclubs for ten years. A year and a half ago, he discovered a larger market, has been carving a high-paying swath across the U.S. pop concert circuit ever since. In Los Angeles, his was the only concert of the year to fill the Hollywood Bowl (capacity: 20,000). In New Orleans, he signed autographs for 2½ hours after the concert was over. In Chicago, the Civic Opera House sold out four days after his concert was announced, had to schedule two more. Outside Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week...
...twister rode in from the airport. The twister dragged its tail across the suburbs, skipped to the industrial "Flats," and wrecked a couple of downtown commercial buildings before it disappeared over the lake. In 29 minutes it curved over 12½ miles, opened a half-mile-wide swath, killed eight, injured 300, wrecked 1,871 houses and did some $20 million of damage...