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...mistook the whistle for the last call to board. There was a stampede to the steep, 14-ft.-wide stone stairway leading down to the platform, whose steps were covered with snow that had drifted in through the station's broken roof. Someone slipped, and in seconds the stair shaft was corked with screaming, struggling people. When the rush was over, 31 were dead, eleven of them children, in the worst railway disaster in Korean history...
...three children in Munich, protected constantly by bodyguards. Fortnight ago. leaving his modest apartment, he went back upstairs for something he had forgotten, leaving his bodyguard waiting in the street. A moment later there was a cry, and neighbors found him lying with a broken neck on the stair landing. An autopsy disclosed the real cause of death: cyanide...
...operative, who shares Lynn's distaste for mobs, joined the Assistant Professor's mighty following as it shuffled in dejection down Harvard Hall's creaky stair. Reflected...
...Assistant Professor Lynn seemed lonely, and if his 250 admirers felt rather empty as they shuffled down the Harvard Hall stair, they could take succor in the knowledge they are admirable sacrifices to technology. That only American History-and-Literature seniors and graduate students could learn of Norris and Faulkner, Fitzgerald and West was unimportant--for perhaps they, someday, might venture forth on Assistant Professor Lynn's lonely course, there to edify later generations. It is a good thing the English Department doesn't pay much attention to Henry Adams any more...
...Come On Out, Son." Next day Chicago dazedly, sadly, tried to find out what had gone wrong. Known point was that the second-floor fire doors had been left open, making a flue for the flames. Not known was how the fire had started at the foot of the stair well itself. A cigarette tossed into wastepaper in the basement? Spontaneous combustion...