Word: sidewalkers
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...Ultimate sidewalk supers...
Perhaps. But in Britain last week, firemen were the ultimate sidewalk superintendents, watching flames engulf the buildings that they normally try to save. For the first time in its 59-year history, the British Fire Brigades Union had called a nationwide strike, ordering the country's 32,000 full-time firemen not to answer alarms. The government of Prime Minister James Callaghan rushed in 10,000 soldiers, most of whom had received only a few days training in rudimentary fire fighting. At week's end 33 Royal Air Force fire teams were dispatched to 13 cities...
...more chewing gum or baseball cards or overcoats or dreams and someone is hosing down the sidewalk and he's only in his teens...
...clinic for abortions and birth control, the building was doused with gasoline and set afire earlier this year. Rebuilt, it now is being picketed daily. Says Tom Webber, executive director of Planned Parenthood of Minnesota: "They say the rosary here. They chant it in a circle on our front sidewalk. A nun even splashed our building with holy water. My life has been threatened a number of times, all in the name of a higher morality...
...allowing the murder to go unsolved might be seen by outsiders as a sign of the area's deterioration. Police charged a neighborhood handyman, Joseph D'Amico, 48, with the slaying. The alleged cause of the killing: a quarrel over botched repair work he had done on Treglia's sidewalk. > Park Slope was a well-to-do neighborhood of elegant three-story brownstone mansions until their owners began moving to the suburbs. The area's slow decline was partly arrested in the 1960s when middle-class professionals began renovating many of the houses, including one that was bought by Lawyer...