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Early reports put the death toll at 1,000 to 2,000, but by week's end estimates were down to some 200 dead and 300 to 500 seriously injured.* The government's gravest problem was taking care of the thousands of homeless. Good neighbors pitched in; airborne supplies were dispatched from Panama (by the American Red Cross), Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico...
Dysentery took its toll of 100 Moors Hall residents yesterday...
...Communist paper in Hunan province reported: "An everyday scene in the Hunan countryside is the sight of peasant militiamen, armed with spears and rifles, taking landowners to the execution grounds." A Canton paper rounded up the toll by hsien, or counties: "Fifty counterrevolutionaries executed in the last three days in Kwongning hsien . . . -Authorities in Nanhoi hsien are carrying out their movement to clear the local prison of its overflowing inmates. About 20 are being taken out each day . . . for execution . . . More than 300 have been executed during the current month . . . The Military Control Committee of Yanping hsien yesterday carried...
...Directions: Proceed by normal route to Wellesley Hills (11 miles), take Route 9 to Westbore (21 miles), switching southward on Route 20 to Sturbridge (26 miles), switch south again on route 15 to East Hartford (30 miles). Take the last turnoff before the Charter Oak toll bridge on Main Street, East Hartford. Turn left on Connecticut Boulevard (Route 44). Stay on Route 44 to Canton (16 miles). Switch to Route 4 through Torrington to Sharon (42 miles). Take Route 343 to Amenia, New York (5 miles), then 44 again to Raymond Avenue stoplight (24 miles). Turn left on Raymond...
...school. Today, if a child reaches his first birthday, he will almost surely reach high-school age. Reason : many of the leading child-killers of the past-diarrhea, whooping cough, diphtheria, scarlet fever-have been all but conquered. Pneumonia, heart diseases, TB and cancer still take a heavy toll, but even these killers are being discouraged by medical progress in treatment and early diagnosis...