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...York City's Police Commissioner Stephen Kennedy ordered a cot set up in his office in anticipation of a heavy week, canceled all holidays for his cops, placed his 24,000-man force on a 60-hour work week, alerted inspectors for 24-hour-a-day duty, assigned 8,000 men just to guard the visitors. Picketing would be permitted, he said, though not with placards held with sticks that might be wielded as weapons. All "movable objects" that might be used for ammunition (e.g., trash receptacles) were removed from streets on which the visitors might ride...
When his two elder boys were asleep and his wife had gone to the cinema, George Ernest Johnson, 40, a major in the Royal Corps of Signals, carried his three-month-old son's cot into the kitchen of their home in Epsom, 14 miles west of London. Dipping his finger in tap water, Johnson made the sign of the cross on the baby's forehead and baptized him David Ernest James. Then Johnson took a flexible gas pipe, put it on the baby's pillow and turned on the gas. When he returned to the kitchen...
...traffic-jammed motorists. A continuous ribbon of new and half-finished apartment houses, new factories, assembly plants and used-car lots flanks the 13-mile road be tween the airport and town. Hotel space is at such a premium that many a visiting industrialist is glad to find a cot in the bathroom of any rooming house. The new boom town: Algiers, a city once chiefly celebrated in romantic French novels for its hauntingly mysterious Casbah and flyspecked poverty...
...rank of ambassador, Cabinet minister or full general can be housed in the Brasilia Palace Hotel," ruled the chief of the inaugural committee, as 5,000 invited dignitaries fought for its 180 first-class rooms. Conrad Hilton, arriving to lay the cornerstone of his Brasilia Hilton, was offered a cot in the Palace Hotel barbershop. Said Deputy Neira Moreira: "I regret to report that Deputies are even drawing arms to assert their rights to dwellings...
Like refugees from a storm, members of all persuasions had cots brought into their offices and spare rooms; even the old Supreme Court chamber was turned into a Senate dormitory. Lady Bird Johnson showed up with a fresh change of pajamas for the majority leader. Maine's Margaret Smith posed daintily for photographers as she tucked herself into a cot (fully clothed) for the night. Wyoming's Gale McGee hauled in a sleeping bag. Wisconsin's Bill Proxmire got himself photographed in his skivvies. At first it almost seemed fun: a visit to the Senate gallery became...