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Lapointe said that a private bathroom for every person will be installed, new study areas will be created and more insulation will be added. The entire floor plan will also be changed, and the bed capacity of the dorm will be reduced from 155 to 124, he added...
...Bruce Glenn, 47, of Plymouth, Minn., smashed open his 16th-floor window, dangled briefly from a sheet, then fell to his death on a third-floor deck. Harry Gaines, 69, and his wife Lorraine, 67, of Los Angeles, heeded the usual survival advice. They fled into their tenth-floor bathroom, shut the door, crammed wet towels under it and stuffed other towels into the air vents...
...home, where her only worry was "What if Hi says something that spoils my resolve to die?" She went in through the garage and up to the bedroom where he was sleeping. Let's talk, said she. Not now, said he. Then she went into the bathroom, where she found a nightgown and a set of curlers, neither of them hers. "The script was not working as I had intended," she testified. Harris threw them into the bedroom. Suddenly, she said, Tarnower struck her. "Hit me again, and make it hard enough to kill," she screamed. Then, reaching into...
...cameramen in Algiers. Well, he said, his shirt was ragged and dirty, and his trousers had no cuffs. He had lost about 40 Ibs. but insisted, "Oh, Mother, I feel fine." His first wish on getting home, he said, was to do some painting around the house. "The bathroom needs painting," he was told. "Good," he said...
Despite the almost constant surveillance of the captors, the isolated hostages figured out ways to communicate with each other. In the early days they were taken to the bathroom with a guard; initially the guard would enter the bathroom with a hostage, but the Iranians themselves were embarrassed and soon stood outside. So a hostage would scribble a quick note on toilet paper and leave it to be read by the next captive to enter the bathroom. The hostages also worked out a code of raps with the knuckles on a wall at the Mushroom, as do prisoners the world...