Word: tolled
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Staggering Sight. By the time the government finishes counting the casualties, the great Ganges cyclone may rank as the worst natural disaster of the 20th century-and one of the worst of all recorded history. The figures transcend normal comprehension and numb the mind. Officially, the toll at the end of last week stood at 150,000; the only natural catastrophe to claim more lives in this century was the 1920 earthquake that killed 180,000 in Kansu, China. Yet the government concedes that its count is far from complete and that newspaper estimates...
Whatever the final toll, the East Pakistan catastrophe has already reached such dimensions as to make it seem unreal. Up close, it is real enough. Cabled TIME's Ghulam Malik after a tour of Manpura Island: "I could not walk 200 yards without passing heaps of bloated bodies. For miles, animal carcasses littered the landscape. The stench was appalling, the sight of parents hovering over their dead children staggering. My legs shook...
Radio Hanoi said at least three U. S. jet bombers and one helicopter were shot down by North Vietnamese defenders during the attack. It said later reports from other areas might increase the plane toll...
...missile launchers, have continually edged forward, so that the SAMs now have theoretical command of the air space behind Israel's Bar-Lev Line on the Suez's east bank. If hostilities resume and Egyptian guns again pound the Israeli fortifications, the SAMs could exact a heavy toll from Israeli fighter-bombers crossing the Canal to silence Egyptian artillery. Since at least 15 of the sites house highly sophisticated SA-3s, which are manned by Russians, the Israelis estimate that as many as 3,000 to 4,000 Soviet technicians are stationed within the standstill zone. The SAMs...
...time of the colonists, an American's reaction to hearing strange noises in the night has often been to reach for a gun. Every year since John F. Kennedy's assassination with a mailorder rifle, gun-control proponents have trooped to Congress to tick off the toll of an overarmed people overreacting. In a Washington suburb last week, the death of a junior high student delivering newspapers brought the statistics to life. A single blast from a shotgun pointed at the predawn shadows killed 13-year-old Todd McKinney. The college student who shot him thought Todd...