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...only entrances to the windowless club. Three of the four emergency exits were padlocked to keep out those without tickets who were eager to hear The Storm, a new rock group from Paris. "I admit that the turnstiles ultimately made the club a sort of prison," said Gilbert Bas, 26, a co-owner of the Cinq-Sept, "but we had to keep out the gate-crashers." By locking the doors, the owners created a cinder-block oven...
...matter of moments, molten sheets of plastic dripped down on the crowd, setting tables, chairs and clothing on fire. Only three men-the club's co-owners -had keys to the emergency exits, and two of them died in the flames. Because there was no telephone, Bas ran to his car to notify the fire department instead of opening the doors. Twenty patrons escaped by leaping over the club's bar and running out the only open exit. One survivor, 17-year-old Jean Luc Bastard, described how some who had escaped punched a hole through...
...most interesting transaction through Swiss banks, however, bears no evidence of illegality. It involved Randolph H. Guthrie, a senior partner of Nixon's former law firm. Guthrie's firm, which represents the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas, last fall was instrumental in arranging a $40 million loan for the New York-based conglomerate Liquidonics Industries to gain control of UMC Industries, a St. Louis defense contracting firm. Had the deal been arranged through an American bank, it would have violated SEC margin requirements. Guthrie asserts-and he has not been disputed-that margin requirements...
...year. Music lessons are all the rage, and at one Tokyo music school four-year-olds learn to play Bach on miniature pianos and violins. At the Tokyo Culture Hall, children flock to the orchestra pit at intermission time to ogle their heroes ? cellists and bas soon players...
...look modified into Moderne, which was chunkier and more geometric, as in a silver tea service designed by Britain's Charles Boyton. In Winter's living room, a black and gold painted panel for a post-office frieze by Lee Lawrie, the artist who designed many bas-reliefs for Rockefeller Center, exemplifies the WPA mood militant of Moderne...