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...year-old landmark Central Library had long suspected that the four towers containing most of the library's books were potential chimney flues. The towers turned out to be just that as a conflagration engulfed the largest library in the West last week. More than 250 firemen fought the blaze for more than six hours...
...excise carefully what the city's leaders saw as the cancer of Move, the city needed a "magic bullet." All it had was a giant shotgun--10,000 rounds of ammunition and a huge blaze, an excess like the impotent overkill of nuclear weapons...
...explosion that destroyed Challenger inevitably evoked memories of an earlier tragedy in America's space program. On Jan. 27, 1967, a fire erupted in the first manned Apollo spacecraft as it sat atop its Saturn 1-B rocket during a test at Cape Kennedy. The blaze killed Virgil ("Gus") Grissom, 40, Edward White, 36, and Roger Chaffee, 31, who until last week were the only astronauts to perish aboard a U.S. spacecraft...
...raging inferno, which began, NASA eventually concluded, with a short circuit in the Apollo's 20 miles of wiring. Flames spread along a nylon net under the astronauts' couches. Had the fire occurred in a natural atmosphere, the three might have had time to escape. But the blaze flashed through the pure oxygen in seconds. Even then the astronauts might have had a chance if they could have blown out Apollo's hatch by touching off explosive bolts. But Grissom was firmly opposed to the use of such bolts. Splashing down in the Atlantic in his Mercury capsule...
...blaze of trumpets heralding the opening session of Parliament in Cape Town had barely died down when State President P.W. Botha unveiled an improbable proposal. Said he: "If I were to release Mr. Nelson Mandela on humanitarian grounds, could Captain Wynand du Toit, Andrei Sakharov and Anatoli Shcharansky not also be released on humanitarian grounds...