Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smoke-blackened, rubble-filled office. In his hand he carried a walkie-talkie to keep in touch with work crews cleaning up the results of a $10 million fire that swept the seven-story department store just five days before Christmas. Marcus, who manned the fire lines with firemen while his wife served them coffee, promised "to come out of these ashes like a phoenix." Fully insured against both fire damage and loss of business during rebuilding, he optimistically set Jan. 11 as a reopening date and predicted that-despite the fire-Neiman's 1964 net profits would rise...
...other's girl. After a longish time which passes quickly with this stellar cast, they execute the scheme successfully. Alas! Traiterous, damned women! No, not really, because Mozart was really worried about his wife while he was writing this opera (some say she was the biggest attraction for visiting firemen in Baden toward the end of the eighteenth century) but Mozart loved her. So the troupe with a wonderfully contagious stoicism, sings, "Happy is the man who takes everything as it comes...
...another development yesterday, Cambridge city employees won themselves a salary increase of 10 per cent. The highest pay scale of regular patrolmen and firemen was increase slightly more than 10 per cent to keep Cambridge abreast of increases in Boston...
...James Lepowsky '65 woke up in Winthrop J-12 and saw the room filled with smoke. He found the closet of his roommate, Robert J. Gordon '65, aflame, and they turned in the alarm. Several fire trucks responded to the call, and the firemen doused the blaze with water...
Litton's defense claims that Steele was just a minor executive "who helped entertain visiting firemen," wryly concedes only that Steele, a onetime manager of the Beverly Hills Tennis Club, "was and perhaps is a very proficient tennis player." The jury will hear evidence over the next few months from 59 witnesses, including Charles Litton and contentious Noah Dietrich, Hughes's longtime right-hand man (they broke up); the onetime boss of the four men in the case, Dietrich will testify for Steele. The trial is sure to produce a lot of heat, and has already confirmed...