Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there were some hysteria cases, but most of the imprisoned straphangers rose to the occasion. Aboard one train, a man who called himself Lord Echo got everybody to join him in calypso songs; two hours later, astonished rescuers found 50 passengers dancing in the aisles. Under the East River, 350 passengers had to slog to safety through mud, water and scurrying rats...
Dancing in the Aisles. The city's ponderous machinery rose to the occasion with unaccustomed swiftness. Mayor Robert Wagner, seeing the lights go out as he drove up the East Side, alerted his Emergency Control Board with his limousine phone. The Police Department, its communications and operations rooms lit by auxiliary power, summoned 5,000 men back to duty, had a force of 15,000 on hand before the long night ended. Because the alarm system was disconnected, the Fire Department sent trucks lumbering through the streets looking for fires. On orders from Governor Nelson Rockefeller, 7,000 National Guardsmen...
...Star and the Finnpulp, rushed to the burning vessel and heaved close to. Both launched lifeboats for the passengers, yanked many out of the water after they jumped from the burning deck. Coast Guard helicopters dropped flares to help the rescue. A column of smoke from the stricken vessel rose 4,000 ft.; flames were visible 20 miles away...
...Rhodesia's small (12,000 regulars, 46,000 reserves) but well-trained army and police. But the loyalties of Rhodesia's armed forces are in doubt. A good percentage of Rhodesian enlisted men were recruited in Britain, and more than half of the nation's officers rose through the ranks of the British army. Whether they would obey orders actually to open fire against the Queen's men was a question that Smith, for one, hoped would never have to be answered. But an answer of sorts did come last week: three new recruits from Britain...
Most obviously agreed with Dr. Johann Einaar, representative of Surinam (Dutch Guiana) in South America, who rose before fellow legislators to declare: "We cannot understand what you have against the wedding. You cannot keep your own children in hand when they are in love." He got a healthy round of applause, and Parliament approved the marriage by a vote of 132 to 9. It will take place on March...