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...only surrendered his diplomatic passport, as he was required to do, but volunteered to give up his regular passport as well. He says he agreed to permit the FBI to search his car and apartment without a warrant and even reminded the agents to check the cellar storage space. But when Bloch and his wife Lou returned from a trip to New York City, they found a valuable chandelier cracked, the windows open and the air conditioning running. They submitted a bill to the FBI. To Bloch's great irritation, the FBI also confiscated his private papers and only belatedly...
...guns at the Westerplatte peninsula, where the Poles were authorized to station 88 soldiers. The only real resistance came from the Polish Post Office on Heveliusplatz, where 51 postal workers barricaded the doors. When the Storm Troopers blasted open part of the building, the Poles retreated to the cellar; the Nazis sprayed them with gasoline and set them afire. By nightfall, Danzig had, said its local Nazi leader, "returned to the Great German Reich...
...Cornell baseball field in Ithaca, N.Y., the Harvard baseball team bounced out of the EIBL cellar with a sweep over the Big Red. The next day, the Crimson swept the Tigers in Princeton. Harvard had turned its mediocre season around...
...deliver on his promises of a better life, his popularity is likely to slip further. What may work to Gorbachev's benefit is the fact that only one-fourth of those polled expect their lives to improve. With expectations that low, Gorbachev may never find himself in the ratings cellar...
...only Sawyer but also NBC correspondent Chris Wallace, has been dubbed the hot network for its aggressive talent raids. NBC, having lost both Wallace and Chung, is hurting. Staff morale is low, and some warn that the network's tightfisted attitude will doom it to the news-ratings cellar. Gartner insists that NBC is not opposed to paying high salaries to the right people but argues, almost quaintly, that by rejecting Chung's money demands, the network cast a vote for old-fashioned news values. "For $2 million," he says, "you can buy an awful lot of journalistic horsepower." True...