Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHICAGO FIRE. Half the West Side bursts into flame every 20 minutes, and who is it but Mrs. O'Leary there, coming out of the heat with an actual cow-trained to moo at crowds. Spectators are called upon to help firemen squirt the blaze from a hand-pump engine. Meanwhile, a cool operator in a fireproof booth turns up the hidden gas jets, then slowly turns them down as the fire subsides, leaving on view the pre-charred timbers of skeleton buildings...
...stoop of the Playhouse, Anne Bancroft announced: "We're the actors-the smiling ones. The worried-looking ones over there are the producers." Said Raymond Massey: "I'm sick of people saying to actors 'The show must go on,' as though actors, like policemen or firemen, were vital to public service. What about the stagehands, lolling down below, playing pinochle, while the actors-making less money-give their guts...
...Prospects. In Bloomfield, Conn., fast-talking Real Estate Broker Thomas J. Larkin finished his spiel about the house, wrapped up the deal in the living room while firemen were extinguishing a blaze in the basement...
...first time, he found himself in a Western nation with a powerful Communist Party. But never before had France taken such precautions for an official visitor. More than half the effectives of the Paris Prefecture, including 3,000 plainclothesmen, were assigned to protect him. Along his route, 2,000 firemen stood guard on rooftops, and the Metro stations below his route had been closed for an hour while engineers tested them for hidden bombs. A noisy barrage of 64 motorcycle cops boxed in his limousine. Even if there had been no guards around him at all, there would stiH have...
...voting was still in progress when a disgruntled crowd raised the cry, "Dirty polls!" It was like a spark in dry straw. Suddenly, 200 angry citizens raced to a police station, set it afire, fled with captured weapons. Another mob, 2,500 strong, gathered before the town hall, stoned firemen, who vainly attempted to hook up their hoses to fight back. After tear gas failed, scores of police arrived from nearby Pusan. One lowered his carbine and fired into the screaming crowd, a signal that led other cops to do the same. When it was all over, at least...