Fire hits Empire State Building in daytime blaze
A smoldering fire in the Empire State Building forced evacuations from the 24th to the 65th floors and disrupted traffic on 34th Street. A discarded cigarette near a cold-water pipe reputedly caused the blaze, knocking out six elevators and halting some broadcasts while workers fled as smoke filled offices high above Manhattan.
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York
Empire State Building
Observatory
Thirty-fourth Street
Manhattan
Fifth
Fire Marshals Office
Four youths escape East Berlin via sewer to West Germany
Four young East Berliners including two youths aged 22 and 21 and two 1-year-old girls fled through a Berlin sewer toward the French sector of West Berlin. They cut through barbed wire and signaled with a handkerchief before authorities found the exit grill near the West German border. Police said guards sealed off the sewer as the group reached West Germany.
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Berlin
UPI
West
Berlin Wall
West Germany
Hof
Germany
Ten Thousand Smile at Mona Lisa in Washington
Approximately ten thousand Americans smiled at the Mona Lisa during the first public showing at the National Gallery of Art. About eleven thousand two hundred fifty formed a line for a quick glimpse, with guards allowing three to five seconds per viewer, occasionally longer for a few.
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Raymond J. Crowley
Washington
National Gallery of Art
Leonardo da Vinci
National Gallery
Mona
Giovanni Bologna
Mercury
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Orion Aerslic Borg
Townster
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Boys' and Henley Hall Shop Savings
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Famous Maker
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Long Beach
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