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...present locks are installed on only one side of each emergency door. On the other side a door knob or handle is screwed to the door, without any mechanical connections to the lock. In one room, trapped students pulled the handle off the door. The door may be opened from one side only, and then only if the lock works properly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quincy House Locks May Change; Malfunction Almost Caused Deaths | 11/3/1965 | See Source »

...Lawrence A. Thomas '66, John T. Nagurney '66, and Gerald P. Costanzo '67 are blocked by flames at the top of the stairs leading to the living room. They try to escape through the emergency exits, but the doorknob breaks off. They beat on the door with the broken knob until neighboring students open the door from the adjoining suite. Unnoticed, Robert L. Sinclair '67 remains asleep in his room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fire Rages in Four Quincy Suites; Cause of $35,000 Blaze is Unknown | 11/2/1965 | See Source »

...ever put on magnetic tape for a family-situation series, every joke bandied about virginity since the Etruscans, and every stereotyped symbol of the rock-'n'-roll rebel from blue jeans to narcotics. All the pay-TV show at Broadway's Playhouse Theater lacks is a knob to turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Pay-TV Show | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

Though doctors generally see no cause for alarm about serious permanent damage from surfer's knobs, California draft boards are becoming deeply concerned. The typical knob on the top of the foot makes it impossible for a surfer to wear high-cut G.I. shoes. The beachniks are beating the draft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trauma: The Knee & the Board | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

...Assateague Island National Seashore, Md.-Va.; Tocks Island National Recreation Area, NJ.-Pa.; Cape Lookout National Seashore, N.C.; Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Mich.; Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Ind.; Oregon Dunes National Seashore, Ore.; Great Basin National Park, Nev.; Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas; Spruce Knob, Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area, W.Va.; Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, Mont.-Wyo.; Flaming Gorge National Recreation, Utah-Wyo.; Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Land: America, the Beautiful | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

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