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Alcatraz screws, tipped off, found that Green and at least two other convicts had hidden escape tools in compartments chipped in the bottom of toilet basins. Among the tools, all fashioned from materials in the prison workshops: a blowtorch made from a large grease cup, a brace and bit from pipe parts. Remarking on the careful preparation, Bennett recalled Green's earnest promise of two years before. "All the time he was talking to me," said Bennett, "he was probably planning his next blast-out attempt...
...public about the boom. Instead of optimism, the greatest economic advance in history has often produced the opposite effect: a fretful, unreasoning pessimism. Like rabid Mickey Mantle fans, the U.S. has become so used to herculean feats that it expects a home run every turn at bat. A mere brace of singles-or merely excellent business-is no longer enough...
...Reader Donovan brace himself; the letters are the initials of the cardinal numbers from one to ten. For the blank spaces...
...adolescent subculture in America has James Dean and sensual hillbilly singers for its idols; it clothes its particular brace of complexes in motorcycle jackets, elaborate hair styles and sullenness...
...BLACK OBELISK (434 pp.)-Erich Maria Remarque - Harcourt, Brace...