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News of the siege swept over the countryside. Blue Ridge mountaineers swarmed down with squirrel guns. State troopers brought machine guns. Townsmen arrived with rifles, pistols, shotguns. Searchlights on Orange County fire trucks flickered across the house's blank, ominous face. Soon, crouched behind trees, knolls and fences, a posse of some 300 men were sending a crackling thunder of gunfire rolling through the peaceful hills. Yet the beleaguered blacks inside the house held firm. One after another five policemen and a countryman went down with bullets in their flesh...
...townsmen wish to preclude all possibilities of shaking their faith; the students want to examine, to hear, to know. This may be the characteristic contrast between age and youth; it is certainly the principal revelation of the survey questionnaire...
Over New Toronto, Ontario, late one night last week, an airplane zig-zagged back & forth to the mild alarm of townsmen, who feared the pilot was lost. Much greater would have been their alarm if they had known that inside the lurching plane its pilot and his one small assistant were desperately fending off the attack of a bull-strong U. S. baseball player who had suddenly become a growling, biting sadist...
...touched it off with matches. Firemen never had a chance. The mob stood guard over their work until the large brick building was a roaring furnace. The court house burned all night. All county records were destroyed. Shelbyville businessmen, aroused at the havoc their country cousins and excitable fellow townsmen had wrought, held a mass meeting, formed a vigilante corps. Dr. Moody told newshawks that he thought that Lillian was not pregnant, had not actually been raped. Indeed, she was back at school. Nevertheless Father Gibson swore a mighty oath, declaring: "The fire hain't started to burn...
News that "Great Little Gaston" was homeward bound spread like wildfire along his route. Thousands of peasants and townsmen turned out to shout, "Long live Doumergue! Down with Herriot...