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BIRMINGHAM.' THE MAGIC CITY! . . . Firemen battering black women with high-pressure hoses, snarling police dogs...
...railroads rather than magnolias and gentility, Birmingham dug in against the black demonstrators led by Martin Luther King Jr. Bull Connor, who really ran the city as public safety commissioner, personified entrenched white supremacy. In Birmingham's embattled spring of 1963, Connor coldly ordered his police and firemen to cut off black marches on downtown with fire hoses, police dogs and clubs. A series of bombings culminated one September morning in a blast that ripped open a black church, killing four small girls in Sunday-school class learning "the love that forgives...
Brush Fires. The problem goes well beyond wilted flowers. In South Wales, where the drought is especially severe, firemen and soldiers were battling forest and heath fires around the clock last week. In Haverfordwest, a geriatrics hospital had to be evacuated when a brush fire spread to the hospital's roof. More than 100 miles to the east in Surrey, a mother and her four children were nearly burned to death when flames from a roadside grass fire engulfed their car. "Wales is a tinderbox," says Roy Orringe, deputy fire chief for Monmouthshire County. "My boys are stretched...
Firehouse aims at fire fighters and their families, retired firemen, and fire buffs-an estimated audience of 2 million. Says Smith, who still works 40 hours a week answering alarms at Coop City in The Bronx: "The magazines written for firemen are all technical. They do nothing to reinforce a fireman's positive image about himself." To change that, Smith decided to find a publisher and start his own magazine. A friend introduced him to Bull, who had wanted to get out of the Voice ever since New York magazine's Clay Felker took it over...
...Vosges Mountains of France at first thought they were Bastille Day firecrackers. But word quickly spread that Le Renfort, the small, neat vacation home of the quiet, graying man known locally as "the German," was afire. Curious villagers gathered to watch the blaze and were still there when firemen pulled a charred body out of the library. Muttered Ernest Rigoulot, the village mayor: "I wanted him to leave. We pressured him, but he didn't want...