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...detector tests and said he was told that "all my answers were deceptive." This, he explained, might be attributed to his nervousness. Other evidence was sought after authorities obtained a search warrant for Williams' home. They confiscated a yellow blanket, purple robe, dog hairs and fibers from a carpet and bedspread. Some of the evidence is said by police to be "encouraging," though final laboratory tests comparing it with trace evidence found on victims are not yet complete...
...manically inventive jag to top Viet Nam for wild, lethal ironies and stage effects-"a black looneytune," Writer Michael Herr called it in his Viet Nam masterpiece Dispatches, Indochina became the demented intersection of a bizarrely inventive killer technology (all of those "daisy cutters" and carpet-laying B-52s and mad swarms of choppers and infra-red nightscopes) with a tunnel-digging peasantry in rubber-tire sandals: the amazing, night-dwelling Victor Charlie...
...Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. But Architect Ralph Adams Cram left plans for the towers, which Bambridge now consults in a dungeon-like room under the bishop's office. "It's like a giant jigsaw puzzle," he explains, pottering around in a pair of tartan carpet slippers. Bambridge makes large drawings of the more complicated bits-perpendicular tracery, buttresses, gables, turrets and pinnacles. From the blueprints, he designs each stone individually on a numbered job card marked with height, width, length. There is also a scale drawing to show the apprentice stonecutter what the finished stone should look...
...familiar fragment from Mouret's Symphony and Fanfare for the King's Supper. He crosses his legs, letting the toe of his bench-made oxford dangle a little above the floor and occasionally-at moments of infrequent agitation-allowing it to graze the surface of the carpet underfoot...
...warnings seemed all the more ominous in light of the new details that emerged last week about the stormy March 4 Moscow summit meeting between Polish and Soviet leaders. Led by Leonid Brezhnev and five Politburo members, the Soviet team reportedly called Polish Party Boss Stanislaw Kania on the carpet for letting the crisis get out of hand. Brandishing thick dossiers on the Polish labor movement, some of the Soviet officials read aloud from Solidarity union documents and speeches as though they were presenting a bill of indictment. One member of the Polish delegation was reportedly so shaken...