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Swarmirage. In Decatur, Ind., firemen bravely struggled to the summit of a 200-ft. grain elevator, discovered that the smoke was a swarm of bees...
...Bunch of Firemen." The flow of German documents with their dry, block-long sentences gave way to the living, somewhat strained voice of the trial's first witness. To the microphone came a tall, cadaverous-looking man whose bald head shone brightly under the floodlights; dark glasses and earphones gave him a horror-story air. He was Major General Erwin Lahousen, aide to the late, little-known Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the Wehrmacht's counterintelligence. After the unsuccessful bomb attempt on the Führer's life in July 1944, Canaris was slowly strangled with piano...
...colleague Colonel General Alfred Jodl: "The court just doesn't seem to realize the principle of 'orders are orders.' . . . It's not up to the Wehrmacht staff to question the Führer principle. If we did, we would have a bunch of firemen, not a Wehrmacht...
Then Perón hit back. Police and firemen came up with reinforcements. Slowly they drove the students from classroom to class room with high-pressure fire hoses and tear gas. In the central hall the students surrendered. At least 50 had been injured. In a Buenos Aires demonstration that night, student Aaron José Salmon Feijot had been killed...
Hold Fire. In Jacksonville, Ill., firemen responding to an alarm at the Wabash railway station had to wait ten minutes for the fire to arrive - in a baggage...