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Such attitudes are callous, to say the least. The explosion could easily have killed or maimed one or more people as other such terrorism has. Fortunately, the watchman was out of the building, the firemen and police who were alerted were on the first floor, and no students or faculty were working late that night in the library or adjacent offices. But it might have been otherwise...
...near-flawless campaign machine that gets him to the right place at the right time. His daily schedule includes a notation on the staff's dress for the day. His advance men provide the hat and Rockefeller produces the rabbit: when he unexpectedly confronted a picket line of firemen recently, his aides produced a public-address system and Rockefeller, who did not cross the line, made a speech that drew applause...
...damages because his stolen car was involved in a fatal collision. The plaintiff, whose wife was killed in the crash, had a persuasive witness-the car thief. Donald Smith, 18, who is now in jail as a youthful offender, testified that he downed 18 beers at a firemen's carnival, jumped into Gorski's car, found the key dangling from the ignition lock, and sped off at 70 m.p.h. Gorski insisted that he had hidden the key in his glove compartment, but the jury believed the car thief. Gorski's lawyer, Edward Tyler, will appeal the verdict...
Floods Next. The overriding demands of disaster forged some improbable alliances. Longhairs joined policemen and firemen in fighting the fires at Malibu. But there were also hippies who staggered into the sheriff's station after working the fire lines and said that they could not get eye drops to ease their smoke irritation. Sheriffs arrested one longhaired man in front of his endangered house, where he had gone to rescue his mother. He was booked for reckless driving and resisting arrest, and was jailed for two days before charges were dismissed...
...midevening the inn was jammed. Outside in the parking lot, the overflow of fifers and drummers set up their own jam sessions. One of those basking in the deafening music was Raymond Hill, fire chief of the City of Los Angeles. In Washington for a firemen's seminar, he had come to Deep River to attend his fifth muster. "Anybody who can hear an ancient corps and not have the hair raise on the back of his neck, why something's wrong with him," he said...