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...parting punch at Pea Ridge, the twister petered out under the sullen, sultry cumulonimbus that had spawned it. At week's end, with the aroma of pine tar from uprooted trees still heavy in the air, and rescuers still digging through the wreckage for more victims, the toll had reached 61 dead, 497 injured, $12 million in damage...
...hung on the front of the demolished home: "This is the fate of all traitors." According to some reports, Hafez was captured and put under arrest; other reports claimed he was elsewhere during the shooting and managed to escape. Either way, the rebellion soon spread throughout Syria, taking a toll variously estimated at 150 to 300 dead...
With 2:48 to play, Yale's high scorer Ed Goldstone sank a pair of free throws which brought the Elis to within two points, 75 to 73. But at that point the Bulldogs rally ran out of gas. Their heavy fouling had taken its toll; five Yale players had fouled out of the game...
...Teacher Toll. The President declared his resolve before the kind of audience he likes-12,000 school administrators-in a place he has reason to regard fondly, Convention Hall in Atlantic City, where the Democratic Party acclaimed him as its presidential candidate 18 months ago. A dense fog that forced the cancellation of all commercial landings almost kept him away. But, braving a 100-ft. ceiling, he flew in aboard a Convair, soon was standing before the educators...
...Chieu Hoi (Open Arms) amnesty program, go to work at once trying to persuade their former colleagues to give up. Other defectors become Biet Kick, a special force of irregulars who hunt the Viet Cong at night, stalking the enemy with V.C. methods. They take a deadly toll...