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...mysterious smouldering underneath the front steps of Warren House brought three Cambridge fire engines to the House at noon yesterday, surprising Union diners. Firemen quickly chopped through the bottom step and quenched the smoke...
...Egyptologists agreed, and turned up at 3 o'clock of the appointed morning just as the refugees from Paris' nightclubs met the first milkman in the streets. The two scholars were equipped with a pink parasol and a walkie-talkie. At the foot of the obelisk, Parisian firemen stood ready with a hook & ladder. The younger of the pair, Mario Fabre, climbed to the top of the monolith; the other, François Guinet-Chaplain, established himself at its base. The hours went by. A crowd began to gather. At 10 o'clock the crowd was thick...
Rubble & Risk. A frantic assault by healing antibodies began immediately. To save the tunnel-which had cost $50 million, 14 lives* and seven years' labor-firemen, tunnel workers, policemen and rescue squads fought into the tube at the height of the 4,000-degree fire. Dozens collapsed from smoke and choking gases...
...year old this month, the organization was hatched last year by a group of students who felt that the University was being a very bad host to its visitors and needed an official group to welcome the visiting firemen...
Cambridge has a long ordinance prohibiting street parking after 2 a.m. The Police Department at one time stated that this law was written "to keep way clear for fire equipment," but insulted firemen said they could move cars just as fast at night as any other time. This inter-service conflict was resolved by both departments hastily dropping their attempts to explain the law; they now identically state that "even if the regulation is ridiculous, a law is a law and we'll enforce...