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When Peter H. York '74 awoke early Sunday morning--at just after 2 a.m. in fact--his Lowell House room was an inferno. Searing flames burst from a closet door, singeing his hair, and when he put his left hand on the wall in making an escape, large blisters sprang from his palm. During York's panicky exit through a first floor window in Lowell's O-entry, he further cut his left hand and right forearm...
Hall explained Sunday that the fire in the closet melted wires to York's fire bell, disabling the alarm system and preventing the alarm from sounding. Hall was out of town yesterday, but said earlier that his office would consider installing a back-up alarm system in the Houses...
...Cambridge Fire Marshall's Office is investigating the origin of the blaze. No official report has been released, but spokesmen for both the Harvard police and the fire department speculated yesterday that a lit cigarette discarded in York's closet caused the fire...
...said it was the "strangest kind of even that could happen" for a fire to begin in a closet, disabling the bell system before triggering a heat detector...
...vanguard which has long since marched stiffly and sullenly to take up positions in the new corporate order. As such they are admirable, in a sense, but not enviable. For if the prevailing militant regime of purposive competition seems a bit unstable, a bit uncomfortably hypocritical--a bunch of closet Marxists running around trying to be Supreme Court Justices--that is perhaps only the inevitable queasiness of a recently resuscitated social order taking its first few strides. And life in this new order can never be the same as it was when you could taste socialism in every song coming...