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While firemen, public works employees, policemen and National Guardsmen battled one of the worst snowstorms in New England history, a party atmosphere reigned in Harvard Square as a multitude of students and Cambridge residents enjoyed the winter wonderland...
...even for an emergency, you're on your own. You can expect no help." In Ohio, where more than half the roads were closed, 7,700 people were rescued from snowbound cars. Governor Rhodes declared a state of emergency and called out 2,500 National Guardsmen to help with rescue efforts. President Carter declared Ohio a federal disaster area. With that, soldiers from the 101st Airborne were rushed in from Fort Campbell, Ky., to help the exhausted Guard. Ten helicopters lifted hundreds of motorists to safety...
...York City officials reported that 25% of Rockaway Beach was swept away by the pounding surf, while in Maine a combination of heavy rains and brutal winds wiped out coastal bridges and flooded shoreline cottages. Ohio Governor James Rhodes declared a snow emergency and called out 150 National Guardsmen to help Cleveland dig out from under massive drifts that had smothered the city. The West Coast too was washed by storms: a Pacific gale and a drenching rain sent huge waves crashing along the California coast, causing mudslides and damage to many shoreside homes...
...darkness, a fire alarm clanged alive at the barracks of Britain's Grenadier Guards in the Chelsea section of London. Guardsmen scrambled aboard two old-fashioned civil defense fire trucks and sped toward a blaze reported out of control in the student quarters of King's College Hospital Medical School. When the troops arrived 15 minutes later, after taking one wrong turn, their low-pressure pumps failed to hose water as high as the third floor; flames were already licking at the roof. Worse, ladders extended only to the second floor. Finally deciding to fight the blaze from...
Several Harvard students have formed a committee to oppose the construction of a gymnasium on Kent State University's Blanket Hill, where four students were shot and killed by National Guardsmen during an antiwar protest...