Word: third-floor
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Deputy Chief Patrick Cremins said that last night's fire started because of overheated Temporary wiring in the bedroom of a third-floor apartment. Damage was confined to the apartment where the fire started. The blaze was brought under control...
...boat cruised east along Malecon Drive, at times no more than 30 yds. from the sea wall, shot up the Havana Riviera hotel-a favorite of Iron Curtain visitors-and left flames licking from third-floor windows. Farther east along the shore, a second raiding group blasted away at a police station, then at a group of soldiers, who scrambled for cover. To the west, the other boat raked the seaside home of Castro's Puppet President Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, drawing erratic rifle fire from nearby guards. By the time the attackers turned for home, the confusion...
...Time to Shave. That twist was enough to do it. The same day Alcoa President John D. Harper hurried from Pittsburgh to McNamara's mammoth third-floor office in the Pentagon's guarded E ring, began negotiating for a truce. Harper was back in the Pentagon the next day, too, and he and McNamara also spoke several times by telephone. At 8:35 p.m. on Wednesday, Harper phoned McNamara from Pittsburgh to surrender: Alcoa would cancel its price boosts. Lest the company change its mind overnight, McNamara called in newsmen for a 9:45 conference, acting so quickly...
...ventured outside for a 1½-mile stroll and cheerfully shook hands with passersby. He stopped to chat with Mrs. Margaret Pisapia of Silver Spring, Md., who told him: "You look wonderful." "I'm doing O.K.," he replied, "for an old man." When he returned to his third-floor room, he had enough energy left to sign 21 minor bills, then visited a dentist in the hospital to have a tooth filled...
...President showed it. Almost no official visitors were admitted to his third-floor suite at the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., last week. Johnson limited his reading to essential reports such as the CIA's daily intelligence summary, rarely used the multi-button telephone console at his bedside. "I think he is weaker than anyone thought," observed White House Press Secretary Bill Moyers. "I think the pace of the last 20 months has accumulated weariness that was not evident until the operation...