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Things weren't overly easy for Cox, though, as the playing conditions took their toll "I couldn't feel my hand at all I still can't feel my hand," he said, explaining how the cold weather kept him from throwing a single change up in the eighth inning...
...personal toll of the crisis was great: in late April, then-Dean of the Faculty Franklin L. Ford suffered a stroke, and later resigned; Fred L. Glimp '50, then-dean of the College, left Harvard for 10 years. On the student side, 13 were eventually asked to withdraw from the University, 20 were given "suspended suspensions," 99 were placed on warning. Many of those who participated in the strike, such as G. Garrett Epps '72, would say years later that the event remained "the most important experience of our lives...
...been pulled from the wreckage of small towns along a 300-mile arc through the Carolinas. Some two dozen tornadoes had touched down during a six-hour period Wednesday, leveling houses, stores and barns and tossing tractor-trailers through the air like children's toys. The death toll from tornadoes was the highest in the U.S. since April 1974, when 300 people were killed in the South and Midwest...
...week, seven demonstrators had died, about 30 had been wounded and 400 had been arrested in eight cities. Police and soldiers did not roam the streets shooting and clubbing protesters at random, as they had done during the past five protests since last spring. Still, the death toll from all these demonstrations stands high...
...death toll from a devastating fire last Feb. 25 in the shantytown-or favela-of Vila Soco, in the southern Brazilian town of Cubatao, was simply too low. Only 86 bodies were recovered after a gasoline-fed blaze exploded into a giant fireball that looked like an atomic mushroom cloud. Yet some 9,000 people lived in Vila SocÓ, a patchwork of wooden shacks built on stilts over a marshy swamp. Coroner Carlos Affonso Figueiredo found it strange that no bodies of children under five years of age had been discovered among the ashes and in the hot rubble...