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Last week, at 76, Orville suffered a heart attack. Lung congestion developed. Late one night, under an oxygen tent in the Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, death came to Orville Wright, begetter...
...average U.S. citizen completely ignores the regularity with which the automobile kills him, maims him, embroils him with the law and provides mobile shelter for rakes intent on seducing his daughters. He takes it into his garage as fondly as an Arab leading a prize mare into his tent. He woos it with Simoniz, Prestone, Ethyl and rich lubricants-and goes broke trading it in on something flashier an hour after he has made the last payment...
...Sixty-five-year-old Charles Davis, who had paced nervously below his children at every performance of their high-wire balancing act, was ready when it happened in a Miami circus tent. As his son and daughter lost their balance and toppled, Davis hurled himself forward and cushioned their fall with his body. His children survived with back injuries; he suffered only bruises...
...Indiana by ox-wagon. "All the place needs is comfortable accommodations and good food," she said. "The auto roads will follow." Nellie went to Palm Springs and bought 1¼ acres and a bungalow on the lee (east) side of San Jacinto for $5,000. She set up a tent for herself, rented the three bedrooms in the house to guests, usually folks with tuberculosis or asthma. Gradually she expanded the house, but it took her until 1919 to show her first profit. As a village grew up around her inn, she bought another 35 acres of land...
...through an unexplored forest which rose "like a dark, dense colonnade." Pigmies assailed them and, according to Stanley's story, more than one Zanzibari "disappeared into the cooking pot." He also described butterflies flying overhead in clouds, "some taking hours to pass"; beetles boring into the tent poles and showering sawdust into the soup. Natives shot poisoned arrows at the passing column, "baboons howled within the darkness . . . and . . . herds of hippopotami grunted thunderously" along the river...