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...years between Sergeant Pepper and Abbey Road, Lennon and McCartney wrote, separately and still (but more tenuously) together, some of their greatest songs (Penny Lane, All You Need Is Love, and Strawberry Fields Forever). But if the turmoil had an immediate, productive side, it also took an inevitable toll. In 1969, after the completion of Abbey Road, John told the boys he was leaving...
...their homes, churches and cafes. Delayed by impassable roads, bad weather and bureaucratic ineptitude, rescue workers took 48 hours or more to reach the most isolated hamlets. Finally the digging-out gathered momentum, unearthing the battered corpses with sickening regularity. By week's end the official death toll stood at nearly 3,000-a fraction, it was feared, of the actual total. More frightening still was the realization that a dread dimension of human failure had been added to an accident of nature: many who died of shock and exposure might have lived had help reached them more quickly...
...most visible and welcomed success has been the crackdown on terrorism. Last summer the death toll from the political warfare between armed extremists of both left and right had reached 30 a day; now the average is less than...
That night, while thousands huddled in open fields or watched special film showings in the city square, the earth began to rumble. A quake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale devastated Haicheng, collapsing buildings, turning bridges into grotesquely twisted heaps and tearing up roads. The death toll could easily have run into six figures. Thanks to the forewarning, it was probably fewer than...
...smoke, not the fire, did the damage, billowing in thick black clouds up the air ducts and stair wells, trapping guests on the upper floors of the 26-story structure. At week's end, the death toll had reached 83, and at least 334 were injured; officials feared that the number of deaths might climb higher still. Said Las Vegas Fire Chief Ray Parrish: "People tend to hide when they get afraid, so it may be a day and a half more before we can arrive at a final figure." The MGM Grand Hotel fire is the second worst...