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Yesterday morning's two alarm fire, which gutted sections of the Varsity Club, has been placed under a "routine investigation" by the Fire Marshal's office, Deputy Chief William Crimmens of the Cambridge Fire Department reported last night...
While the cause of the fire has not been determined by the Fire Marshal's office, Crimmens said that it definitely started at the foot of an emergency stairwell leading from the basement to the Club, working its way up through the stairwell, which acted as a chimney, to the roof. Fire damage was limited to the stairwell and a few adjoining rooms, but water damage was present throughout the entire building. The Union, which adjoins the building, was unhurt...
After seven bright years as NATO's elder statesman and tireless gadfly, the Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, was retiring. One afternoon last week, after a round of farewell parties, doughty Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, 70, stepped out of SHAPE'S headquarters building near Paris, marched briskly past cheering troops (including a blue-grey contingent of the Germans he had fought so well in World War II). Then Monty shook hands with his boyish-looking boss, U.S. Air Force General Lauris Norstad, 51, and drove off. "Silly old boy," mused one British private soldier...
...France wrangled its way closer to the date of the referendum on its new constitution, Premier Charles de Gaulle got a ringing endorsement from an old comrade in arms. Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, 70, standing down as NATO's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander in Europe after half a century of soldiering, told a farewell Paris press conference: "Quite frankly, I am a Gaullist. General de Gaulle stands for France more than any other person in decades. He is a good guy-and he is going to put this country right. If anybody disagrees, I'll wager...
...deputy U.S. marshal and two Internal Revenue agents found him sitting in his car in front of Findlay Street Neighborhood House, a recreational center for slum children that he heads. When they told McCrackin to come along, he refused to budge. They lifted him out of his car and he refused to walk. So they carried gangling Pastor McCrackin to their own automobile, drove him to the Federal Building, carried him into the elevator (where he sat on the floor), and carried him first into the marshal's office, then into the tax commissioner's office. They carried...