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...breakfast. It was eight o'clock, and, in his dark blue suit and polished brown shoes, he was ready for another long day of farewells to supporters. Carter had already been to the Oval Office for an hour of work. Now, back upstairs, he looked down the wide corridor and said in a soft voice: "We've enjoyed living in this house. It will be hard to leave it." Rosalynn Carter, wearing a white wool suit, came out of a nearby bedroom. At the table, the President said a short prayer and then began talking...
Haunted by the memory of the 1942 Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire that killed 504 persons, Boston has one of the nation's most stringent fire codes. Every building over 70 ft. tall, for instance, must have a sprinkler in every room, closet and corridor. Just as important, owners of some existing buildings have voluntarily modernized their fire-safety systems. The venerable seven-story Copley Plaza was built in 1912, but its owners are spending $460,000 to install smoke alarms in every room after an arsonist's blaze in 1979 killed two people...
...protestors assembled at 11 a.m. and picketed for two hours. Their enthusiasm carried them up to the chancellor's office. "We made lots of noise in the outside corridor," Bowen said. "It's a totally legal form of job action," he added...
Postel said only the fifth floor infirmary was not evacuated, adding that patients followed a special "disaster evacuation" procedure. Officials moved all in-patients to an enclosed corridor on the fifth floor to shield them from possible flying glass, that Postel called the main danger of an explosion...
...through the debris-strewn entrails of Boston Arena to reflect in the privacy of their bomb-shelter locker room upon the embarassing 11-5 trouncing they had just been handed, the inevitable happened. "Where the hell are the keys?" a Harvard official shouted as the squad stood in a corridor and waited...