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Moving up a seed from last week, Farokh Pandole started off a little slowly, losing his first game to Franklin & Marshall's Steve Hopkins. "I started off not mentally prepared to push forward," Pandole said. "It was hard to come back and rectify that." But rectify he did--and tore down his opponent's lead, to win the next three games...
Angered, Boesman violently rips apart the shack he has built, just as the white men tore apart the couple's shanty on the day before. Then he is quiet, all energy spent. After a tense moment, Lena reaches out her hand to Boesman, takes her share of their belongings on her back and walks with him off stage...
Almost all telephone lines in the Leverett House towers and some lines in McKinlock Hall were knocked out for several hours yesterday afternoon after an industrial backhoe working on St. Paul's lot tore up a 400-line phone cable...
...resources they need for their own recovery, some of Hugo's victims seem to have drawn renewed courage from the calamity on the West Coast. The realization that there are even worse disasters than the one they suffered has reinforced their determination to restore normality to their lives. Hugo tore the roof off Betty Disher's home on Sullivan's Island, which some experts think should be off limits to development because of its vulnerability to hurricanes. She was unable to watch televised reports about the quake. Now she and her husband Johnny have made an optimistic choice. "We have...
...corner of Sixth and Bluxome streets, however, the fourth-floor brick wall of a building erected a few years after the 1906 quake tore loose. "Bricks were falling, and dust was everywhere," said Charles Pinkstaff, who ran out of a nearby structure that also rumbled. "Then everything was quiet, except for water dripping somewhere. I saw a car smashed so flat I couldn't tell if anyone had been in it." When he got closer, he saw that the driver had been decapitated. The falling wall had smashed seven cars, killing at least five people. "I've seen people...