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Some adults have suffered harsh treatment at the hands of kidnapers as well, and undergone long, lonely bouts of uncertainty over what was to become of them. Jack Teich, a Brooklyn businessman, was chained in a closet for a week last year until his family paid $750,000 for his release. The kidnapers are still being sought...
...approach to a tuberculosis sanatorium he had designed in 1929 at Paimio, in southern Finland's pine forests. Aalto considered how each occupant, from the director on down, not only would use the building but also might feel about it. The janitor, he decided, should have his own closet, not just an impersonal clothes hook. When it came to the hospital rooms, Aalto put himself in the place of the patients. The result: designs for windows that would admit fresh air but not drafts, wash basins that would not splash, and chairs of resilient wood so that convalescents would...
Sooner or later, quite possibly by the end of this year, Colby seems certain to be asked to leave-a fate that he accepts philosophically. Says one White House aide: "He inherited all the skeletons in the closet and issued all the corrective memoranda, but that's not going to make him any less expendable. He should be allowed to see the investigation through, then retire with honor...
...Harvard alumni. About 30 per cent of the participants have been to other Harvard alumni colleges, with some people returning year-after year. The Radcliffe program is too new to really know where its market lies, Downey says, but she feels that the poetry workshops have attracted the "closet poets--people who love to write and never tell anyone...
...election will center on whether the Government should shoulder yet more of the burdens or should concentrate on enlarging individual responsibilities. Jerry Ford has no doubts about his side in the debate. He sounds as if he had found an old Coolidge text in a White House closet. "What we need in this country is not a New Deal but a fresh start. What we need is not more federal control, but the adventure of personal achievement...