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Fire gutted a first-floor suite and caused minor damage to a hallway in Lowell House early Sunday morning, injuring one student and bringing calls for improved alarm systems and evacuation procedures...
Police reported that York woke to flames, found the door to his room blocked, and attempted to exit by the window. Because the lower half of first-floor windows on the street side of Lowell House are barred, York broke through the top half of his window with his fist and escaped to the street. He lacerated his wrist in the process...
...Fine," replied Marsh Thomson, "but I'll have to go home and get my gear." Lugging his bag, Thomson arrived back at the Executive Office Building just before 4 o'clock only to find his boss unexpectedly engaged. In the corridor outside Richard Nixon's first-floor hideaway office, he recognized two of the Secret Servicemen assigned to Agnew. The President and the Vice President were having a talk. The two men met alone for an hour and a half and emerged only after agreeing to tell no one what they discussed. Agnew seemed discouraged...
...pigeons to wheel in confusion over the square, which was packed with the cars of commuters who were trapped downtown by the coup attempt. The crew that usually raises the Chilean flag in front of the Moneda in the morning defiantly draped Chile's national flag out a first-floor window of the palace. Somehow that hapless scene seemed to symbolize the country's present state...
...that South Vietnamese generals stormed Ngo Dinh Diem's presidential palace and sent him to his grave. First came the long night of siege and the thunder of tanks in battle at the palace walls. Then came the final rush through the grounds by Diem's once faithful soldiers. As the battle subsided, I caught the first glimpse of a white flag waving tentatively from a first-floor palace window. In a minute or so the air was filled with silence-and with the awful smell of burned powder and oil and tank drivers' bodies. At first...