Nobody in the little (pop. 6,000) Netherlands town of Borculo knows anyone in Warren, Ark. personally. Nevertheless, last month the farmers, laborers, and shopkeepers of Borculo felt a sudden close kinship with the citizens of Warren. Fat, jolly Burgomaster Paul Drost had just told them what he had heard from his friend Cnoop Koopmans, the Dutch consul general in New York. Warren, Koopmans wrote, had just been struck low by a tornado (TIME, Jan. 17). In Borculo there was scarcely an adult who did not remember vividly the time his town had...
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