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Touchy after jailing a lawyer for one hour for contempt of court, the judge ran afoul of a TV film cameraman in the corridor from his chambers to the courtroom, shoved the camera aside and bullied the cameraman into surrendering his film. Next, he sent word from the courtroom that he would brook no picture taking in the corridor. When he emerged, photographers from the Miami Herald and station WTVJ began shooting. The judge ordered bailiffs to lock them in his chambers, then telephoned their bosses...
...corridor, about two-thirds to the south side of the building, will divide the laboratories from the professors' studies, instrument rooms, and small labs...
These patients are well removed from other wards in the infirmary for Ward L is at the end of a long covered corridor in the building. There is no restriction on visitors to these patients, however, and non-patients have been coming in and out for several days. If these patients have Asian flu, there is a strong possibility that their visitors may also get the disease, for the illness has a very high degree of contagion...
...arranged that all living rooms are on the middle floor, with a solid floor of bedrooms above and below. From each living room, inside stairs lead up or down to the bedrooms of that suite. Only the middle floor--where the living rooms are--has a central corridor with access to elevators and main stairways...
...biggest gas and electric companies (2,755,000 customers, $523 million annual revenue), replacing Harland C. Forbes, 59, who moves up to board chairman. A self-taught financial expert, whose formal schooling ended after two years of high school, Eble joined Con Ed in 1916 as a "corridor boy," sandwiching in two years of correspondence courses from the Alexander Hamilton Institute between chores. Shifted to the accounting department, Eble was an assistant comptroller in 1935, became a vice president four years ago. An important target as president: financing a $650 million expansion program...