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...cigarette accidentally left on the couch started the fire after Peter Johnson '68 and Bob Easton '68 went out to get something to eat, Johnson said. They woke the third roommate, Joseph Cantrick '68, and called the fire department when they returned and found the couch burning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fiery Holocaust Guts Couch and Goldfinger | 12/15/1964 | See Source »

...students actually woke up at about 6:15 a.m. while the thief was opening a dreser drawer. Dazed, the student asked what the youth was doing in his room. The thief replied "Is Jay--here?" Still dazed, the student mumbled "No," where upon the thief made a rapid exit from the room. Fully awake by this time, the student rushed after him, but the thief had disappeared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams House Plundered By Petty Thieves | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

...James Lepowsky '65 woke up in Winthrop J-12 and saw the room filled with smoke. He found the closet of his roommate, Robert J. Gordon '65, aflame, and they turned in the alarm. Several fire trucks responded to the call, and the firemen doused the blaze with water...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fury Closet Shatters Calm Winthrop Sleep | 11/9/1964 | See Source »

Humphrey was right. To vote, the Humphreys went directly to the one room township hall, where they stood in adjoining booths and marked their paper ballots with pencils. Afterward, talking with reporters outside, Humphrey said: "I woke up some time back and realized if I were elected Vice President I wouldn't be Senator for Minnesota any more, and that made my heart ache a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vice-Presidency: The Happy Warrior | 11/4/1964 | See Source »

...stroke he had suffered in January, he had himself brushed aside a question about his successor with the smiling reply: "My lifetime is not ending so very soon." Last week he had helicoptered back to Delhi from a four-day vacation in the cool hills surrounding Dehra Dun. He woke as usual at 6:30 a.m., but instead of performing his customary yoga exercises, complained of pains in his back. Within minutes, he collapsed in a coma from which he never recovered. At 2 p.m., he was dead. A Cabinet minister rose in Parliament and announced in a choked voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Man of East & West | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

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