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According to University Police officers and firemen, smoke caused by welders on the 10th floor cutting pipe entered the building's air ducts, tripping the alarm at around...
...city's police and fire stations) when he phoned the TV newsroom three times within half an hour. He was there when Simmons and Harris arrived and set up their lights and camera, more than an hour after Andrews' original call. The police insist that they and volunteer firemen combed the area, but were unable to spot any sign of a potential suicide. They dispersed minutes before the news crew arrived...
Biographer Martin Seymour-Smith handles much of the fiction as inspired entertainments and a good deal of the criticism as counterattacks in the literary wars. Graves' targets were not insignificant. Vachel Lindsay: "jazz Blake, St. Francis of Assisi playing the saxophone at the Firemen's Ball." Ezra Pound: bad rhythms and "a wet handshake." Dylan Thomas: "a Welsh demagogic masturbator who failed to pay his bills." T.S. Eliot: "a marvelous satirist with a true poetic sense who had sold out to institutionalized religion...
Closer to home, the Justice Department has also filed a brief siding with white police officers and firemen in Boston who have filed a reverse-discrimination case scheduled to come before the Supreme Court this spring. When layoffs caused by Proposition 2 1/2 threatened to undo the effects of a recently approved and implemented affirmative action plan, a Circuit Court ordered the departments to alter their seniority plans to preserve in part the effects of preferential hiring. That decision resulted in the firing of some whites who would have retained their jobs under the established seniority plan, and led police...
...University official said that this is the first time in at least five years in which firemen were needed to put out a fire in a Harvard residential or administrative building...