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...into the smoke to help. Director of Collections Alfred H. Barr Jr. led trapped museum staffers from the fifth floor to an adjacent brownstone roof. Other museum staff members led 500 visitors to the museum's rooftop restaurant or down the fire stairs. The fire's human toll: 30 firemen and visitors injured, one workman dead. Mute evidence of how bad the result might have been were the smudged, clawing finger marks left on a wall by Electrician Ruben Geller, 55, before he collapsed and died face down in 6 inches of water on the second floor...
...family were chopped to death because they showed insufficient grief at the passing of Adelabu. "Mammy wagons" (rural buses) that did not carry the traditional green twigs of mourning were overturned and destroyed, and the passengers forced to run for their lives. In ten days the official death toll was 20, and many lay in the hospitals. When the mob ran out of political opponents, it turned its fury on government tax collectors...
...nation is ripped and razed, leveled and linked with freeways, toll roads and a 41,000-mile, $40 billion interstate highway system that represents the greatest road-building program ever undertaken, hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens are having their lives abruptly changed-but not always with the gentle touch of a fairy godmother. Cities and towns are slashed up the middle. Quiet neighborhoods become the home of screeching tires and carbon monoxide; farmlands are sliced into pieces that can no longer be economically worked. The uprooted may agree with Seattle Art Dealer Zoe Dusanne, whose home and gallery overlooking...
Chicago Paper Manufacturer Paul Butler surrendered 230 of his 3,800 acres for the Northern Illinois Toll Highway, including fox-hunting runs and part of one of his eleven polo fields. He got $2,000,000, considered that hardly adequate for a stretch of choice land. In the Los Angeles suburb of Westchester, Aircraft Mechanic Roger Ransom will probably lose the back tenth of his lot to the San Diego Freeway. He has been offered $900, considers that hardly adequate for the spot where his orchard was going to grow. Some 15 miles west of Santa Rosa, N.Mex., on widening...
...Whom the Bells Toll. By noon, Johnson was in the Senate chamber. No sooner had "Amen" sounded to the opening prayer than Johnson claimed the floor for his pretentious speech on recession. "I believe it is essential," he cried, "that responsible leaders prepare now to meet any eventuality. I should think that can be done without any foreboding prophecies of gloom or doom, or any Pollyanna predictions that prosperity is just around some ever-receding corner...