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...through light snow that dusted the 250-ft. Bridge of No Return from North to South Korea. In quilted blue coats, grey shirts, flannel trousers and white-soled black sneakers, the 82 surviving crew members filed over the bridge at ten-foot intervals. The body of the 83rd, Fireman Duane Hodges, mortally wounded during the hijacking by North Korean patrol boats, was brought to mid-bridge in a North Korean ambulance and his coffin transferred to a waiting U.S. truck...
...Shakespeare. "The funny, far-out menu is a must these days," states Manhattan Restaurateur Shelly Fireman. "The majority of people who dine out are bored with each other and need something to break down the barriers. A way-out menu gives them something to talk about." Alas, the wit is insipid. Along with the "martini-bopper's special," Fireman's own Tin Lizzie restaurant revels in marginalia: "Sit down in our barber chair and enjoy the last living 5? shoeshine, done with real champagne." Minneapolis' Cork & Fork follows each listing with an entry like "Lionel Barrymore...
...also initiated a number of businesses. A few months ago, Charles Bussey, a Negro operator of a furniture-restoring firm, rounded up 25 other Negro investors to form San Francisco Container Corp, They put up $20,000, then raised another $180,000 from the Bank of America and the Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. Next month, in San Francisco's Hunters Point ghetto, they will open a plant that will make chipboard and cardboard cases...
...drive. Through the week, he swept from New England to the Great Plains to Arkansas and Texas, bringing to 35 the number of states he has visited since he rejoined the race. He cracked jokes and lobster in Maine, clanged through the streets of Sioux City, Iowa, in a fireman's hat, was greeted on the green in New Haven, Conn., by Sybil, a seven-year-old elephant with a Rockefeller sticker on her trunk, and dropped in at the famous Humphrey drugstore in Huron, S. Dak., to pick up gifts for Happy and the two boys; when...
February and the Tet Offensive brought a bit of Harvard's dovishfringe up to New Hampshire to campaign for "Gene." His prospects were dim and many students disliked his unemotional approach, but as Bruce Fireman '70, a follower of SDS, said, "I don't want any anti-war candidate to do badly; a Johnson victory would be interpreted as support for the war. . . . He [McCarthy] is the only candidate we've got, we ought to help...