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Summer Relief. In Tipton, Calif., after Marie Schonhair decided to smoke out the bees buzzing around her house, firemen put out the $3,000 fire, reported later that the bees were gone...
...them, but as their numbers grew the police were unable to cope with them. Inside the embassy an officer remarked: "Look, we're being demonstrated against." The crowds grew larger, began to stone the embassy; eight attachés took to an air-raid shelter. Chinese police and firemen tried to keep the crowds back with fire hoses, were greeted with howls of derision when they turned on the hose and produced only a feeble spurt of water...
Benny's mother arrived home to find a town-strong task force deployed across her lawn. Firemen had lowered a hose to Benny and were pumping oxygen into the airless hole. In the eerie shadows cast by searchlights, trucks disgorged tools, timber, volunteers. Rescue workers were feverishly digging a pit ten feet from Benny's shaft and parallel to it. A power shovel clanked in to speed the digging, but had to give up only four feet down when the pit caved in. A dozen men stepped back into the hole with hand shovels, shoring up the crumbling...
Clamdiggers and bootblacks set up a clamor at this, and eventually, through effective lobbying, were exempted under the law; so were policemen and firemen seeking in order that they could hold Sunday parades. The law has suffered many similar modifications and encroachments in the last 260 years, some of which are not easily explained. The distinction between clamdigging and seaweed gathering is a fine one, and it is difficult to see why it is illegal to play golf but not miniature golf...
...Search. In Halifax. N.S., after Bobby Maceachern, 3, crawled 50 ft. into a concrete drainpipe and got stuck, firemen and volunteers spent an hour breaking it open to free him. were informed: "I was looking for something...