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...watch. On the dot of 4 p.m., David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of the Jewish state, banged the table with his fist and began to read. As he reached the words proclaiming "the establishment of the Jewish State in Palestine, to be called Israel,"* the audience cheered and wept...
...least 20 minutes before then, a group of Negroes started strolling away from the Monument grounds on the way to the Memorial. Hundreds, then thousands and tens of thousands, followed. Constitution and Independence Avenues were transformed into oceans of bobbing placards. Some marchers wept as they walked; the faces of many more gleamed with happiness. There were no brass bands. There was little shouting or singing. Instead, for over an hour and a half, there was the sound of thousands of feet shuffling toward the temple erected in the name of Abraham Lincoln...
...midnight, Hubert G. Locke, a Negro who is administrative assistant to the police commissioner, left his desk at headquarters and climbed to the roof for a look at Detroit. When he saw it, he wept. Beneath him, whole sections of the nation's fifth largest city lay in charred, smoking ruins. From Grand River Avenue to Gratiot Avenue six miles to the east, tongues of flame licked at the night sky, illuminating the angular skeletons of gutted homes, shops, supermarkets. Looters danced in the eerie shadows, stripping a store clean, then setting it to the torch...
...shows Clark's chest being cut open, the removal of his heart and the implanting of the artificial organ. Says Una Loy Clark, Barney's widow: "I feel that it is really not in the best of taste to show these things. It smacks of sensationalism." She wept openly at seeing what she called her "loved one's body being exposed and cut." Though they would like to have the film aired, officials of the University of Utah, KUED and the hospital all say they will abide by Mrs. Clark's wishes. Others involved...
...Chicago. The Rev. Mr. Gould has a taste for the fun nuptial. At the conclusion of his own marriage ceremony in 1977, he turned to his bride, before the assembled guests, and said: "Thank you for choosing an outrageous cuss like me." He was overcome. He broke down and wept. His bride burst out laughing...