Word: firemanning
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Sticky Patch. Film insurance has, in fact, been a frisky business lately. Lloyd's several other English firms and San Francisco's Fireman's Fund Insurance Co.-the only American underwriter in the field-have been slogging about in what one English expert calls "a rather sticky patch." The death of Tyrone Power during Solomon and Sheba caused the biggest settlement in history: Fireman's Fund paid United Artists $1,219,172. The vaguely defined illnesses that put France Nuyen out of Suzie Wong cost the insurance companies nearly half a million-when Audrey Hepburn fell...
...When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam', the Bluebell-consisting for the present of two freshly painted wooden coaches between a brace of antique steam engines -chuffed down the track at a sedate 25 m.p.h. Minutes later, reaching the end of the line, the volunteer engineer and fireman hopped out, hurried around to the rear engine, fired it up and brought the train, all whistles blowing, triumphantly back to the station...
...just running for fun," Robert C. Johnson. 48, explained to friends who asked him why he got into a hopeless election contest. On a dare, Johnson, a political unknown, operator of a small Jacksonville clothing factory specializing in policeman and fireman uniforms, had entered Florida's Democratic primary as a candidate for the unpaid but influential party post of national committeeman...
Cwiklinski, a 45-year-old fireman with an ulcer, was not flouting hospital rules. As one of 24 patients in St. Mary's 25-bed self-care unit, he was well within them. For over six months the new unit had been taking in patients whose needs are not urgent: observation, a routine physical exam, daily physical therapy, post-operative recuperation. Normally, the patients would have been confined to a bed, wakened regularly each morning, prodded unnecessarily with a thermometer, served lukewarm meals. In the self-care unit, they take their own medicine and their own baths...
...high school teacher whose main course was ''Problems of Democracy." Burning Passion. In Milwaukee. Thelma Kamuchey, 25, admitted setting ten fires in apartment buildings, garages and a trailer during a two-month period, because she wanted to see her former boy friend, a fireman...