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...Many a braggart state has filed paternity claims for softball, but the most popular story blames a Minneapolis fireman named Louis Rober, who organized the game back in the 1890s to keep other firemen out of trouble...
Five fire trucks clanged to a stop before University Hall yesterday afternoon after it had been reported that smoke was issuing from Mr. Bulfinch's building. Dean Bundy ran down its historic steps, calming down the breathless firemen, waiting photographers, and anxious students: only the insulation in the basement had caught fire, and everything was under control...
...courtyard. The more diligent of the inmates began making bonfire piles of stools and pallets. Others ripped off cell doors to feed the flames. As acrid fumes rose from a score of separate fires, eight squadrons of gendarmes, along with truckloads of municipal police and four companies of firemen, rushed to the scene. Inside the prison, Warden Hyacinthe Mariani, accompanied by three high-ranking Paris police officials, begged and pleaded with the prisoners for a restoration of order. So, surprisingly, did one of the prisoners, let out of his cell by his mates. The prisoner: Mohammed ben Bella, the Algerian...
...some lower-salaried groups, or those with short hours, moonlighting is already traditional. Many schoolteachers have always had other jobs. So have firemen, postal workers and policemen. In one New Jersey community the police station is practically a hiring hall for housewives who want seasonal help in putting up storm windows or cleaning cellars. What is new is the rapid spread of moonlighting into high-paying fields where it did not exist before, or was not important. In Akron, where 30,000 rubber workers are on a six-hour day and a six-day week, 50% have more than...
Deficient but Hopeful. Compromising and tough by turns-at one point he threatened not to campaign for the Christian Democrats in next fall's general election-Erhard never ceased pressing for his law. Last week, while Bonn sweltered under heat so intense that firemen were obliged to water the Bundestag roof to prevent it from dripping tar, the 60-year-old Economics Minister finally won the day. The law he got-which provided for a number of permissible cartels including "crisis" cartels and retail-price-fixing rings-was less than he had hoped for. Nonetheless, said Erhard, "with...