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...York City, with many of its streets still edged with the remains of the Big Snow (TIME, Jan. 5), got seven hours' advance warning of an all-day blizzard whirling in from Cape Hatteras. Caught short before, municipal authorities worked themselves into a mad dither of preparedness; firemen were put on 16-hour emergency duty, 1,400 plows and snow trucks were mobilized. But most of the fuss was needless. The blizzard, such as it was, raged over the city for a few hours, then blew itself...
...galoshes. Hotels were besieged; and a backwash of the stranded headed for bars, all-night movies and the apartments of friends. Meanwhile the Fire Department was struck by the horrible thought-it couldn't move its trucks. Its engine-house gongs rang out the "five sixes" (all firemen report for duty). It got radio stations to ask the citizenry kindly not to let their houses burn down...
...rather to the general surprise-had done some stage-setting, too. A battalion of regular army troops with full field equipment took up positions in the Piazza Colonna. Armored cars and fast police jeeps rolled through the streets. When a demonstration was expected at the Ministry of the Interior, firemen played a few jets of cold water through the air. There was no demonstration...
Smokeaters. In Sikeston, Mo., firemen enthusiastically trotted to the Palace Café, put out the fire among the T-bone steaks, ate them...
Cambridge firemen, arriving on a book-and-ladder truck and a fire engine, showed little appreciation of their undue summons and remarked to questioning Yardlings that they were merely on a practice run. "Five Yard policemen were present to preserve the remaining modicum of order among north-entry residents...