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Fire completely gutted a room in Leverett House early this morning. The blaze, first reported at 3:31, was brought under control within ten minutes and damage to adjoining rooms and the corridor was estimated as slight...
Boulukos and Tangeman tried to put out the blaze with fire extinguishers but were driven back by the smoke. Firemen wearing gasmasks subdued the flames with water when they arrived about five minutes later. A window was knocked out, and flamings sofas, chairs and tables were thrown into the courtyard below...
Milan, one of Italy's Communist centers, was on fire last week with a Christian blaze. Day and night, well-organized Catholic Action workers staged rallies, Sisters of the Poor passed out leaflets, loudspeaker trucks blared Schubert's Ave Maria, 200 preachers fanned out through 31 hospitals and clinics. In churches and cinemas, banks and jails, men and women gathered to pray...
...known in London as Teddy boys, who falls in with a crew of intellectuals. They are dismal London versions of Greenwich Village nihilists-a sort of intellectual Jimson weed that sprouted amid the unfilled bomb craters of postwar London. Says Reg, a novelist: "We'll light such a blaze that all their nice little civilised fire engines won't be able...
...inflationary blaze in Latin America began about a decade ago with a small, warm glow, fed by the best of intentions: to match the standards of the prosperous, industrialized nations of the world, to live the full, good life. The specific objectives varied by nations-large public works, social welfare schemes, high wages, more leisure for workers, local rather than foreign development of national resources -all adding up to what economists call "the revolution of expectations." But expectations outran means; relatively backward economies could not supply the standards of fully developed states. Strained for the means, nations turned to their...