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...been tortured and threatened so intensively by the S.L.A. that she felt herself to be a psychological as well as a physical captive of her abductors. She told how, after her kidnaping on the night of Feb. 4, 1974, she had been placed in a hot, stifling closet about 5 ft. or 6 ft. long and 3 ft. wide, her hands bound, her eyes blindfolded, unable to get out even to go to the bathroom. During the first week, the only person who spoke to her was Donald DeFreeze (the self-styled General Field Marshal Cinque of the S.L.A...
...affidavit was rambling and repetitious, ungrammatical and contradictory in part: at one point, it said Patty was in the closet for "several days"; at another, for "an interminable length of time, which seemed to her to be weeks." But the account made its basic points clear enough...
...matter how hard it tries, the Graduate School of Design can't keep its skeletons locked in the closet. Every few years the bolt slips, the door edges open and out step the remains of old GSD scandals in a veritable danse macabre. "Unfortunate sordidness" soon fills the air, as it has once again this month for the GSD, the University's long-time problem child...
...first skeleton out of the closet this year belongs to a long-departed former GSD faculty member named Chester W. Hartman '57, who now lives in San Francisco. When the GSD declined in 1969 to reappoint him assistant professor of city planning, Hartman successfully sought formal investigation of his charges that personal and political considerations had governed the school's decision...
...force. Once again Christie has twisted the classic form in which she writes, and has come up with something new. Curtain is a shocker. It will cause intense, benign controversy and become an enormous bestseller. It is to be hoped that Queen Elizabeth has more ribbons in her closet to decorate this enduring and lonely symbol of British vitality...