Word: firemanning
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...Stage 5 at Hollywood's Samuel Goldwyn Studios, the children's show Sigmund was being shot. Then an electrical fire started, and flames soon surrounded set, actors and crew. In next to no time, Fireman Steve McQueen came to the rescue. Rehearsing for his role as fire chief in The Towering Inferno, McQueen had been training on another lot with Peter Lucarelli, battalion chief of the Los Angeles fire department. When Lucarelli sped off to the real fire, Steve tagged along, followed by Wife Ali McGraw. Donning helmet and coat, he joined firefighters and helped pull the hoses...
Park is still undecided about the starter for the nightcap. "I want to keep the options open," he said yesterday, but hinted that ace fireman Norm Walsh...
That's how it ended, fans. Harvard picked up a come-from-behind 6-5 win, thanks to fireman Walsh and a pair of clutch hits in the ninth by Don Williams and Dave St. Pierre...
...bureau received a tip that the daughter of William Randolph Hearst, not Randolph A. Hearst, had been kidnaped. "It has been like that," says Austin. "Tips that get twisted. Rumors with kernels of truth. Outright lies." How, then, to get the story? "It's like being a fireman," says Boyce. "You answer every alarm though you know it may be false. You continue to dig, check and crosscheck, and try to put the pieces together...
...identified can all too easily be "fired or discredited," in the immortal words of White House aide Patrick Buchanan. The ultimate loser is neither the newspaper nor the source, but the public. Information withheld is knowledge limited, and a public with limited knowledge is like a fireman with a limited water supply...