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Well, the proud innkeep asked the Queen to upcreep a stairway that no one could see; When dinner was served, she ate unobserved, then again wafted downways by stair...
...situation, in a New York neighborhood where racial barriers were as inflexible as foreign borders, the laughs did not come easy. "I felt like I was being punished, cut off," Jeffreys remembers. "It made me lonely." And scared of the sound of his stepfather's foot on the stair...
They have charged that in the event of a fire the building, which is not equipped with automatic sprinklers, would become a deathtrap, as prisoners and workers would be unable to leave by elevator or stair, and fire truck ladders could not reach them...
...then swept down and back across the casino. Except for the twelve people killed in the casino, most of the deaths took place on the upper floors, when thick, black smoke mixed with poisonous gases from the casino's burning plastic decorations swirled upward through air ducts, stair wells and elevator shafts...
...tragedy was made worse by the fact that flames were able to destroy the alarm's control system before it could go into action. In addition, open stair wells funneled the smoke upward like chimneys. Nevada Governor Robert List called the hotel "a burned-out devastation. It turns your stomach." And he added: "The repercussions from this fire will be long-lasting...