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...Cardinal Mindszenty, considered Primate of Hungary by the Vatican, is still isolated in two-room quarters at the legation, where he reads, prays and takes a daily, half-hour stroll in the courtyard while Hungarian secret police keep a 24-hour watch outside...
...night visitor to the Leverett Courtyard is no longer blinded by 150 watt spotlights burning into the yellow curtains. No longer does he see the insipid bright and-dark checkerboard of old; the visitor of today is greeted by a varied pattern of bright, dark, and dim. If this pleases the visitor, he may be startled by the sight of peering, bleary-eyed Leverett Men emerging from the Towers...
...string cot in the courtyard of the Golden Temple of Amritsar lay Master Tara Singh, 76, political leader of India's 6,000,000 Sikhs. Masterji, as he is called by his followers in the Punjab, was entering the second month of a fast he had sworn to keep unto death, or until the Indian government grants his demand for a Punjabi Suba-a separate, Sikh-dominated state. Few fasts since the days of Mahatma Gandhi's Empire-baiting hunger strikes had caused such a stir in India...
...gallery's elaborate electronic alarm system was not turned on until late. In the men's room, police found marks on a radiator under a window. The thief could have climbed out that window and down a workman's ladder that had been left in the courtyard, then over a 12-ft. wall and out onto Orange Street, which is all but deserted in the evening...
...discipline, Taylor once gave a lieutenant a medal for a dangerous patrol and simultaneously fined him $50 for not being clean-shaven. Taylor was harder on himself than anyone, making personal reconnaissances by Jeep, risking injury unnecessarily by sitting stubbornly at a staff table while shells fell in the courtyard outside...