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...Franciscans have endured two municipal employees' strikes in the past two years (the most recent was a three-day-long police and firemen's walkout last August), and were ready to cope. Traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge was tied up for extended rush hours but never hopelessly snarled. Some 500,000 regular users of city transportation (including thousands of schoolchildren) had to find another way to get to their destinations. Most hiked or biked uncomplainingly up the city's hills. But more than a third of the student body was absent because some school-bus service...
...real key is that it has been able to interest nontraditional students [retired people, veterans, part-timers]. It represents history in a way no lecture could, that no book could. It turns people on; the reactions have been very good." Those who took the course ranged from police and firemen at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston to Don Dutro, 24, an electronics worker in Los Angeles, who this semester took "Adams" along with four other telecourses at Orange Coast College...
...every 65 Bostonians was, according to Haverford College Historian Roger Lane, engaged in selling liquor. The dozen "houses of infamous character" that nourished in the West End of Boston were raided in 1823 by a party of citizens led by Mayor Josiah Quincy. In 1837 a riot between volunteer firemen and an Irish funeral procession was so serious that a militia cavalry regiment of 800 horsemen was required to restore order. As a result of these disturbances, a professional police force was created, modeled after the new London police. In 1863 this force, aided by the militia, put down...
Four Cambridge fire trucks and more than a dozen firemen responded to an accidental alarm triggered by electricians working in Canaday Hall yesterday afternoon...
...student called the Cambridge Fire Department at 11:05 p.m. and said he smelled something burning. The fire trucks pulled in front of Matthews at 11:07 p.m. The firemen found smoke, but there were no flames...