Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this week by the Air Force: the U.S.'s first ready-for-action unit (eight officers, three chief warrant officers, 67 enlisted men and 30 civilians) designed ) fire the Strategic Air Command's first ready-for-action intercontinental guided missile, Snark. Next month the Air Force ill also start building the U.S.'s Snark ase at Presque Isle, Me. From there nark will be able to reach almost all worthwhile targets in heartland Russia...
...abroad, old newsreel vaults and a network of private collectors, mostly eccentrics whom one NBC searcher describes as "a basketful of live eels who frequently don't own the film legally." Archives are widely scattered, often poorly indexed, studded with tantalizing gaps left by oversight, fire and disintegration. Nitrate-base film, widely used until 1948, has a lifetime of only 25 years. "It is not unusual," says an expert, "to open a can of film and find nothing but dust." Almost as frustrating is the sheer volume; the vaults of the U.S. armed forces alone hold 166 million feet...
...prowler climbed through the window into a fourth floor room in Eliot Hall last night and attempted to attack the occupant, Margery Mauser '60. Miss Mauser's screams frightened the man, who ran down the fire escape. Police were summoned immediately...
...latest police action is the result of complaints from the fire department that illegal parking around Leverett House hindered the extinguishing of a fire in the House Monday morning. The blaze resulted in the gutting of a room in Mather Hall and extensive damage in several adjoining suites...
...fire, which was reported at 3:30 a.m. Monday, completely gutted the room of Athanasios Boulukus '59 and John T. Tangeman '59. Boulukos and Tangeman discovered the fire when they returned to the room after walking a friend home. Damage to adjoining rooms was slight, but Cremins said that several of the rooms damaged by the smoke would probably have to be repainted...