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Some labor-law experts would allow strikes by "nonessential" public employees, such as Government clerks, while retaining the strike ban for such essential employees as policemen, firemen and public-transit workers. Indeed, Puerto Rico permits that distinction in its commonwealth constitution. One potential effect, of course, is that strikes might eventually be banned for private "essential" employees, such as defense workers...
...hook-and-ladder trucks and four engines responded to the alarm. Most of the bedroom furnishings were thrown into the street where firemen hosed them own. Deputy Cremins said that last night's fire was the second largest in Cambridge this year...
Saturday, November 27 ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The National Surfing Championships at Huntingdon Beach, Calif., and the New York State Firemen's competition in Utica...
Rushed Ice. At many of the city's hospitals, auxiliary generators quickly conked out?or were not available to begin with. At Bellevue, sewage began to back up into the basement when pumps failed, finally reached a level of H in. Police, firemen and volunteers rushed dry ice to hospitals to keep stored blood from spoiling, sent generators to those that needed them, rigged electrical heart-pacer machines to auxiliary power, and hand-pumped iron lungs. A delicate corneal transplant, a five-hour craniotomy, and a caesarean section were performed under light from makeshift sources; five dozen babies were delivered...
During the fire, four students had to make a dash for safety through a flaming hallway. Three firemen were forced out of a sixth story window by heavy black smoke and were dramatically rescued when a ladder was extended to them...