Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ground, on 7th Street and on 14th Street, what looked like cool smoke to the office-workers was hot fire to the blacks, the cops, and the firemen. Before the weekend was out, there would be 851 fires in Washington. Damage would be estimated at 13.3 million dollars. 645 buildings would be destroved, including 212 residential units. Ten persons would be killed, more than 1000 arrested. But on Friday afternoon, the day after Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, things were just beginning...
...hundreds of cattle and horses, and whole flocks of chickens have been killed in unprovoked attacks by the queens' offspring. Dogs, cats, turkeys and pigs have died. Last month a swarm descended on a group of children playing in a park in Niteroi, across the bay from Rio. Firemen had to fight them 1 with flamethrowers. In another city a police dog diverted a swarm attacking his eight-year-old master, saving the boy but dying of multiple stings a half-hour later...
...State is quiet." White had effectively made a public project out of keeping rioting to a minimum. He had enlisted the support of the people and of James Brown instead of the National Guard and Federal troops. And in spite of a few "minor incidents" (buildings burned and firemen stoned) Boston's was one of the few success stories in the country...
Scott may have been right in his time. But no more. Now a noteworthy and increasing number of Americans are beginning second acts with verve and purpose. Among them are some rather familiar figures: military men, policemen and firemen who reach retirement potential at a relatively early age and apply their knowledge and skill to some new endeavor. They are being joined by a growing number of second-acters who are buoyed by an unprecedented level of savings from good salaries, by the rewards of profit-sharing plans and stock options, by early-retirement programs and by plain guts. They...
...fact-finding, conciliation, mediation, arbitration and injunction to work in the public sector must be devised. Third, despite all the complications involved, it must be recognized that there are differences among various kinds of public service -that some are more essential than others. Certainly no strike of policemen, firemen or prison guards can be tolerated. But a strike of clerical workers in a state accounting office, for example, can be considered in an entirely different context...