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...protests pour in, the police present a series of rationalizations in answer. They carp on the old favorites of parked cars impeding snow clearance and blocking fire engines on the way to a night-time blaze. Now that snow has migrated north, the study fire engines must bear the bulk of the rather shaky argument. During the day the Fire Department has to battle through streets cluttered with parked and moving cars, and seems to fare pretty well. There is no reason why they could not do even better at night, when there are few drivers about...
...Korea, Marine Captain Ted Williams, former Boston Red Sox slugging outfielder, finished his first combat mission as a jet pilot. In a 200-plane strike at a Red supply center near Pyongyang, Williams' Panther jet was struck by ground fire, and started to blaze. With a dead radio, wing flaps and wheels stuck and the airspeed indicator out, he nursed his jet back to the nearest forward air base, where he walked away from a crash landing. Said he: "There was nothing to do but belly...
Like schoolmasters marking a poor student's test paper Dr. Heckmann and a couple of scientists sharpened their pencils and set to work on Herr Bueren's theory. The sun's corona does blaze at approximately 1,000,000° C., they conceded, but who can believe that the enormous heat is caused, as Herr Bueren also insisted, by cosmic particles striking the sun's outer atmosphere? Why shouldn't the same particles bombard the earth and set it glowing? And did Herr Bueren really believe that sunspots are gaping holes...
...through five huge stacks of lumber and spread to a few nearby buildings. It was a spectacular New Year's show. But within an hour, cheered on by their wives and children behind the police cordons, the firemen (volunteers, like all Chilean bomberos) seemed to be getting the blaze under control, and the watching crowds began to drift away again. Then the superintendent of an adjoining government warehouse rushed up to shout a warning: there were 1,214 Ibs. of dynamite stored in the building. Before he had even finished gasping out his story, flames inside the building reached...
...said he was awakened at 9:20 a.m. by a floormate yelling "Smoke." He found a corner of his living room in flames. Before firemen could douse the blaze, fire had gutted the floor and smoke damaged the walls and most of the occupants' clothing. A roommate, William B. Warren '56, slept through the whole disturbance...