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...blocks reduced to ash and rubble, the name Watts came to signify not just a black ghetto in south-central Los Angeles but black unrest across the U.S. By the time troops and police brought peace to what had become a 46.5-sq.-mi. war zone, the toll was tragic: 34 dead, 1,032 injured, 3,952 arrested, some 600 buildings ravaged, property loss around $40 million...
...Deak, 80, the shooting was a tragic, dramatic finale to a storybook life that included parachute missions behind enemy lines in World War II as well as great wealth and serious conflicts with the Federal Government. Born to a family of bankers and lawyers on Oct. 8, 1905, in a part of Transylvania that now belongs to Rumania, Deak was educated in Hungary, Austria, Switzerland and France and became fluent in five languages. After taking a job with a foreign exchange brokerage firm in New York City in 1939, he joined the U.S. Army as a paratrooper and later became...
...hoping to initiate him without his consent into the wonders of hallucinogenic insights. What happens instead is that the friend and victim, temporarily left alone by Edward, walks out of a window and falls to his death. Once the authorities and newspapers finish raking over the details of this tragic accident, "Edward passed out of the public eye into his private hell...
...spend so much of our tax money on defense yet put our servicemen on planes that are unfit to fly [NATION, Dec. 23]. Our 248 young men and women should not have died in Newfoundland. We must do something to avert further tragic waste of life. Cheri Hansen Yorba Linda, Calif...
During its 10-game losing streak to Princeton, Harvard had come so close so many times but had met with tragic defeat after tragic defeat...