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Damage to the structure of the building was minimal because it is mostly brick, Sgt. Richard W. Smith of the Cambridge police said yesterday...
...Sunday morning demonstration quickly turned into an occupation. Someone with a boltcutter opened a padlocked gate, and the mob flooded into the 27-acre compound. The Americans inside barricaded themselves in the fortified brick chancellery building, and Marine guards there held the doors shut long enough for officials to destroy some secret embassy documents. Then they surrendered and, with the rest of the Americans, were blindfolded and bound. Their captors identified themselves as students whose allegiance was to Khomeini. Their demand was that the Shah be returned to Iran...
...even on earth, suggesting something the Wright brothers might have come up with if they had been utterly ignorant of aerodynamics. ("Wilbur, why don't we put some little wings on that silo?" "Let's give it a try, Orville.") Actually, the space shuttle brings to mind a bloated, brick-covered DC-9, except that when "stacked" (as the space people say) on the launch pad with its enormous fuel tank and two crayon-shaped rocket boosters, it forms a surreal ensemble that could easily be passed off as the Intergalactic Hilton in a hokey sci-fi movie...
...jobs long snubbed by French workers in prosperous times. As unemployment figures have soared, however, the French have come to resent the immigrants as job stealers. Adding to the resentment is the increased burden on education, and a popular feeling that crime rates among immigrants are high. Scrawled on brick walls throughout working-class regions outside Paris are the words ONE AND A HALF MILLION UNEMPLOYED IS ONE AND A HALF MILLION IMMIGRANTS TOO MANY...
...house is an emblem of the life and the work. It sprawls on Spring Street in lower Manhattan, several blocks east of SoHo's boutiqueland and just above the bustle of Chinatown. Outside, the 19th century red brick structure is at once dignified and haphazard looking. Inside, it becomes a succession of caves: several buildings joined together (one of them a former abortion clinic or else a private lunatic asylum-the stories never tally), with the dividing walls knocked out, so that one goes up and down a series of levels. The floors are black and polished; the rooms...