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...More than 1,400 of the city's streets were blocked by drifts, many of them 12 ft. high. The estimated 300 million tons of snow that fell on Chicago closed schools for at least a week, halted the city's elevated rail system for days, kept firemen from reaching burning buildings, and forced critically short-staffed hospitals to import 1,000 pints of blood from Los Angeles. The city attached snowplows to garbage trucks, even fire trucks. Convoys of borrowed snow-fighting equipment rolled in from as far away as Quebec...
...himself has long been on the grand tour of editors, anchormen, roving correspondents. But after the New York Times closed down its bureau in February 1977, there wasn't one American reporter based in Tehran. The result has been what correspondents call "parachuting" into a place, arriving like firemen after a fire is visibly raging...
...young boys the mailman and others always saw around the house. Someone told the papers about a fire in the garage (where a couple of bodies were later discovered). A nude Gacy, afraid the bodies would be found, ran frantically from the shower to put it out himself before firemen arrived, readers were informed...
...police and firemen who rushed to the scene of San Diego's disastrous air crash last September, the tragedy is not yet over. Months after a Pacific Southwest airliner collided with a small plane and plunged into a downtown neighborhood, claiming 144 lives, many of the emergency workers who confronted the human carnage were still trying to shake off the trauma. A few were paralyzed with anxiety whenever they tried to put on the uniform they wore on the day of the accident. Others suffered from hellish nightmares, insomnia, stomach ailments, migraines and partial amnesia about the terrible event...
...sidewalks around downtown hotels seem to be particularly thick with these visiting firemen nowadays, it is because the nation is in the grip of what can only be called convention fever. The symptoms: an eruption of hats, badges, buttons, sashes, brochures, luggage-strewn hotel lobbies, stackable ball room chairs, green baize tabletops, insulated plastic water pitchers, WELCOME banners, note-festooned message boards, firm handshakes, hearty guffaws, setups in the hospitality suite and dark circles under the eyes. The diagnosis: an insatiable urge to meet and greet, gather and blather with one's suppliers, customers, lodge members, old friends, perfect strangers...