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...Paige, 41, he supplies a hard-to-find essential of slum rehabilitation: responsible home-grown leadership. Working by night as a boiler fireman for the city's Sanitation Department to support his wife and two teen-age sons, he customarily cuts his sleep to five or six hours to spend more of his day struggling to get people on his block to "participate." Says Gypsum's Obey: "If Paige can keep these people together, we'll be all right...
...people kept two bartenders in constant motion. Gambling? In East Chicago, there are poker games almost any night upstairs over the Nu-Oriental Restaurant, and poker, pinball and betting on the horses at Forsythe Billiards. For a full Baedeker tour of the county's delights, the visiting fireman can stop in Hammond (some gambling and prostitution), Whiting (gambling), or Griffith, where the favorite form of recreation is "Lucky 7s" and "Triple 50s," in which the player puts a quarter or half-dollar into a jar, receives a numbered slip, then waits hopefully for his jackpot...
...Manhattan's East 20s, the Gashouse district, and while many of his neighbors were learning how to be thugs, Johnny, fresh from parochial school, was driving a brick truck at the age of twelve. A stint in the World War I Navy and a few months as a fireman convinced him that he was not cut out for such tame endeavors. The pug-faced Irishman joined the cops in 1923. "Gimme a gangster, give him a gun, and leave the rest to me," he used to say. Well aware that the hoods of his day had such powerful political...
Salt & Stabilizers. And then there was Craig Breedlove, 28, an ex-fireman from Palos Verdes, Calif., whose addiction to speed has cost him his life savings, one marriage, and very nearly his life. In 1963, Breedlove set a land speed record of 407 m.p.h. in his three-wheeled Spirit of America, then raised the mark to 526 m.p.h. last year before Art Arfons took it away with a 536-m.p.h. clocking. Breedlove wrecked the original Spirit by driving it into a salt pond, and this fall he was back at Bonneville with a four-wheeled, jet-powered monstrosity that looked...
...Fireman use a ladder to enter the building through a window in the south wall to evacuate other students on the sixth floor. Master Bullitt meets Chandler and University Police trying to break through fire exits on the seventh floor to reach any remaining students. Using a pass key, they enter three suites, but are blocked by smoke. Garland E. Allen, Senior Tutor of Quincy House, crawls along the sixth-floor hall, under the smoke, attempting to warn other students who may still be trapped...