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More than 25 Cambridge fire vehicles responded to the 4 a.m. alarm. It took fire fighters nearly six hours to control the blaze, fireman Donald J. Warren said yesterday...
...interesting' to know which. We tell ourselves that it makes some difference whether the naked woman is about to commit a mortal sin or is about to register a political protest or is about to be, the Aristophanic view, snatched back to the human condition by the fireman in priest's clothing just visible in the window behind her, the one smiling at the telephoto lens. We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices...
...matter what is on the tapes, Connally's staff members dismiss them as unimportant. Says aide Julian Read: "At a time when the barn is burning, do you want to stop and take the fireman's fingerprints? Hell...
...violent act by a clean-cut Viet Nam veteran and former policeman and fireman shocked San Franciscans. "If White had been a breakfast cereal," said one acquaintance, "he would have to have been Wheaties." But Defense Counsel Douglas Schmidt described White as a manic-depressive with intolerable pressures because of his heavily mortgaged house and his efforts to support a wife and baby from a fast-food stand. The defense made much of White's penchant for wolfing down junk food-Twinkies, Cokes, doughnuts, candy bars-a habit that, the defense claimed, exacerbated his depression and indicated a chemical...
...shopping in the small seaport of Charlotte Amalie in the U.S. Virgin Islands. In the galley, preparations were under way for dinner. Then an electrical wire caught fire, perhaps ignited by some burning grease, and soon the flames were spreading uncontrollably through the luxury liner. Said Fireman Boyd Brown: "There were flames shooting out of every porthole on all decks. It was like a towering inferno...