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Leet felt that yesterday's tremor was "a sort of repeat" of "the Ossippee quakes of 1940," which he described as "somewhat larger than this...
Weston scientists blamed yesterday's tremor on "some breakage in the earth's surface." Leet said that the Northeast has nothing comparable to the celebrated "San Andreas fault," which has been the cause of numerous spectacular earthquakes in the Pacific coast area...
...Leet, professor of Geology and the University's earthquake expert, called yesterday's early morning tremor "moderate in intensity" and said that it was part of a "pattern" which may bring a major quake to the northeastern U.S. "within twenty-five or fifty years...
...Commandant Leonard D. Heaton, half a dozen of the hospital's department heads worked over Prince Mashhur. Their conclusion: he had suffered a brain injury at his birth. The result is akin to cerebral palsy, though the child has no tremor. Abnormal nerve impulses to muscles in the right leg have shortened the heel cord (Achilles' tendon); its shortness forces the prince to walk on the toes and ball of the foot...
...leaned over rebels' shoulders to sight his camera along their rifle barrels. Among the casualties in the same action (TIME, Nov. 12): Paris-Match Photographer Jean-Pierre Pedrazzini, whose wounds resulted in his death last week. Yet Sadovy's 18 rolls of 35-mm. film showed no tremor. His most memorable sequence: rebels cutting down security police as they poured out of a Communist headquarters. With his pictures. LIFE ran his own terse, vivid account: "I could see the impact of bullets on a man's clothes...