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...adjacent office's blue floor and low ceiling immediately creates a different space, although both "rooms" are quite small and are not separated by real barriers. In addition, Bernick's office adds a touch of humor. He reachs his desk by a ladder and descends by means of a fireman's pole--a constant reminder of levity which moderates several serious scenes, most notably one potentially awkward encounter between Bernick and his foreman Aune (Mark Driscoll...
...hours a dozen ambulances waited for firemen to make entry safe. Lamented Volunteer Fireman Bob Bennett: "We train and train to help save lives. Then it happens, and we can't do anything but take the dead out." But Deputy Sheriff Gerald Hibbs saw something move in the rubble two hours after the crash. "Get a doctor!" he shouted. A baby started to cry. "What a sound it was," recalled Bennett. Wearing only diapers, 16-month-old Melissa Trahan was rushed to a hospital, suffering foot burns. "Just one ray of life in all this," said a policeman...
...words of a U.S. diplomat at an embassy in the Middle East, speaking of his own region but voicing a comment that has broader application: "We do not even have a framework, a bare outline of ideas, let alone a complete policy. All we are doing is playing fireman...
DIED. John Patrick Cardinal Cody, 74, Archbishop of Chicago; apparently of a heart attack; in Chicago. The son of an immigrant St. Louis fireman, Cody spent eleven years in Rome, where he earned three doctorates. He returned to serve the church in St. Louis and Kansas City. As Archbishop of New Orleans he led black children into Catholic schools as pickets protested integration. In his 17 years in Chicago, he ruled rigidly and created controversy. A federal grand jury was investigating charges that he had diverted $1 million in church funds to enrich a longtime friend, Helen Dolan Wilson. Said...
...touched freshman Jeff Musselman for a three-RBI trot around the bases in the fifth, and the Tigers took a 7-4 lead. But like the nightcap the previous day, the Crimson battled back, evening the score with three runs in the bottom of the inning before calling on fireman Mike Smerczynski to hold Princeton...