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...committee announced a list of the most amiable Parisians, as chosen in a poll. Among the winners: a cab driver, a policeman, a salesgirl, a dress model and smiling President Vincent Auriol himself. Perhaps the most notable of all the prizewinners was vast, maternal Mme. Denise Muairon, 52, an imposing pillar of Parisian lovability. Mme. Muairon, the concierge at Numero 19 Rue Daru, belongs to a profession that is usually rated about as amiable as a barbed-wire fence. Unlike her colleagues, who snarl at one and all indiscriminately, Madame has smiled benignly from her glass-enclosed niche...
Other signals began flashing a warning (repeated by colored lights in the cab of the Red Arrow's 320-ton electric locomotive) back along the narrowing interval of steel between the two trains. Near Villanova, a mile and a quarter west of the stalled express, the oncoming flyer was ordered to "stop & proceed" at no more than 15 m.p.h. The Red Arrow slid obediently to a halt. But when it started again it inexplicably began picking up speed...
...half-mile-long line of cars crawled along bumper to bumper behind a huge trailer-truck. Suddenly one car swerved out of line, passed the others and drew up alongside the slow-moving truck. Out jumped a barrel-chested, thick-necked man who poked his head in the cab and said: "Why don't you pull over? You're the kind of guy that makes people mad at truckers...
...power line tangled with the train's trolley. There was a blinding, bluish-white flash as 1,500 volts crackled into the train. Flames licked swiftly over the first two of the five wooden coaches. Motorman Akira Nakamura braked sharply, shut off the power and jumped from the cab, tried frantically to force the doors of the coaches with his hands. Because the power was off, the electrically controlled doors would not budge. Within seconds both coaches were flaming coffins; only ten burned and bleeding passengers escaped through the windows. Soon a long parade of blackened corpses was being...
...crashes, it found nothing structurally wrong with the planes. But after the crash last January, the Civil Aeronautics Administration recommended 63 modifications in each 202 (cost per plane, $15,000). It did not think the modification's serious enough to ground the planes at the time; but CAB said it would continue investigations, to see if it could fix the blame on the planes, the pilots, or poor maintenance...