¶ After two months of almost unbroken heat, the weather got hotter & hotter. A 40 & 8 band from Flint, Mich, marched in an American Legion parade in Detroit in diapers and baby hats. In big-city slums, thousands slept on rooftops and fire escapes. Then over the weekend, a cold air mass moved in at last and made life bearable.
¶ Bookkeeper Joseph Binns, 45, of Long Beach, Calif., went to jail last week to serve a 30-day sentence for stealing $1,272 from the used-car firm that employed him. When he gets out, said Employer Douglas Dennard, Binns will not...
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