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...yellow and green," recalled Judy Anderson. "You could hear the momentum and roar. It was all over in 20 seconds." And when the tornado was all over, so too was Anderson's home town, Barneveld, Wis. (pop. 580)-literally wiped off the earth in a matter of seconds by a twister that left nine of its residents dead, 77 hospitalized and only three of its buildings standing intact...
Public ignorance of the scale (and sometimes of the existence) of the conflict testifies to the tremendous power of the mass media in determining the importance and relevance of news items. A tornado in Kansas or flood in South Carolina attracts reporters from everywhere; every exasperating item of the disaster is detailed, every reaction of the survivors chronicled, every political angle scrutinized...
Hazel Taylor and his wife Yvonne joined hands in terror as the tornado funnel raced toward their mobile home in Abney, S.C. The winds tore the trailer apart, lifted up the Taylors and whirled them 100 ft. through the air like two figures from the second circle of Dante's Inferno. Rescue workers found them lying in a field, dazed but alive-and still holding hands...
WHAT MADE this "human tornado" tick? What gave him the energy to devote his life to cause after cause? Eleanor Roosevelt, who worked with Allard Lowenstein in the '50s, once explained that "he will always fight crusades because injustice fills him with a sense of rebellion. "His was a body that could not sit still, a mind that could not rest. "Whenever A1 came to see me," recalls Kennedy. I knew that he brought with him a challenge to be met, a wrong to be righted, a dream to be fulfilled. He would show up unexpectedly, he would pace...
...dozens in expensive enclaves of Santa Barbara and Stinson Beach. Tennis Star Billie Jean King's exclusive Malibu home, the subject of a celebrated "palimony" suit by her former lover Marilyn Barnett, was pounded off its foundation and had to be destroyed by officials for safety reasons. A tornado, rare for California, ripped through a section of Los Angeles...