Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Kerner, 52, kicked up his heels as if he had just heard the election returns. Democrat Kerner's elfin partners were two kiddies attending a Christmas party of Chicago's Off-the-Street Club, a civic organization that keeps children out of trouble and politicians out of smoke-filled rooms...
...next day the mob came back for more. From balconies and rooftops, demonstrators showered roof tiles and bricks on the advancing lines of police. Leather-jacketed young men hurled Molotov cocktails, which burst into flowers of orange flame and clouds of oily smoke. In a doorway a young girl, her eyes streaming from tear gas, screamed at the police: "Executioners!" Dangerous but disorganized the mob fought furiously, but with an aimless fury born of frustration...
Mobs chanted outside his office not long ago, and a secretary rushed in with a rumor that in ten minutes the building would go up in smoke. Grinned Redmond: "What color?" At the two nearly deserted schools that took in token Negroes (three in one; one in the other), he keeps idle teachers at work every day planning and preparing lessons...
Although official estimates are still unavailable, one preliminary figure puts the damage at over $30,000. The fire, which poured huge clouds of smoke over the Yard, completely gutted the Poets' Theater, Inc., and brought extensive damage to the Paul Schuster Art Gallery. Also destroyed John D. Hughes, Painters; Hayden, Inc., Painters; at the Workshop, T.F. Haley...
...special problems for the men. Intense heat and toxic fumes made work inside the building difficult. It took nearly two and half hours to get the fire under control. Two firemen, Ralph H. Underwood and Gerald M. Sears, suffered injuries. Underwood had a broken hand while Sears suffered from smoke inhalation...