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Plainly Shaken. Nixon was scarcely home before he took to the road again. On Tuesday, he flew to the Ohio farming town of Xenia, which had been virtually destroyed by a tornado the previous week. For 2½ hours, he toured the devastated area by helicopter and by car, and was plainly shaken. "In terms of destruction, just total devastation, this is the worst I have seen," he said. He ordered Administration officials to cut through the red tape and speed aid to rebuild the town. "Within a matter of two or three years," he promised, "you are going...
...nature's bitter ironies that spring-the season of rebirth-also brings an irresistible, destructive force that strikes terror into the hearts of all who have experienced it. That deadly force is the tornado. Last week, as na ture ran amuck, tornadoes struck with their full fury...
...West, a threatening layer of cooler, drier air seeped eastward toward the Appalachians, sliding under the moist air. As the two layers converged in an uneasy mixture, tremendous turbulence developed. In the roiling atmosphere, embryo funnels of spinning air formed, dissolved and reformed-a telltale sign that the tornado season had arrived...
Weathermen issued increasingly urgent warnings to residents in "Tornado Alley," that vast stretch of plains lying be tween the Appalachians and the Rockies and sweeping from Georgia and Alabama up to Canada. When the storms hit in midweek, the tornado fun nels were twirling at 200 m.p.h...
From Decatur, Ala., to Windsor, Ont., tornado winds chewed up homes and businesses, sent cars, buses and even freight trains spinning aloft, toppled massive power line towers and wiped out whole families. More than 60 twisters flickered out of the sky over an eleven-state area, claiming more than 300 lives and destroying property worth nearly $400 million. It was the most devastating salvo of tornadoes to hit the U.S. since 1925, when 689 were killed. President Nixon declared Alabama, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Georgia and Tennessee disaster areas. Vice President Ford, after viewing devastated portions of Ohio from...