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...third-floor room at the Russian consulate, Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina nervously snapped off the mid-afternoon news broadcast. She walked to one of the windows overlooking the courtyard below, and wrenched it open. She stood there a moment-a plump, distraught, middle-aged woman in a ruffled blue dress...
...body hit a skein of telephone wires, caught for a second and plunged on, ripping the wires loose from the walls. She landed, groaning, on the cement courtyard, the wire still wrapped in a tangle around her legs. There was an instant of silence. Then the whole neighborhood was in an uproar...
...Leave Me Alone." From the exclusive 28 Club next door to the consulate, a tan-uniformed employee rushed into the street, shouting: "There's a woman lying in the courtyard back there." Excited knots of spectators appeared out of nowhere. Newsmen and photographers pelted into the club building. Police guards on duty outside the consulate raced after them...
From the Pierre, the A.P.'s Vincent O'Mahoney saw the photographers come to life. He dashed out, with the Daily News's Frank Ross and the Daily Mirror's Ara Piastre at his heels. While they stared at the crumpled figure in the courtyard, Russian-speaking Reporter Piastre (daughter of Conductor Mishel Piastre) heard her moaning "Ostavte! Ostavte!" (Later, only the Herald Tribune went out of its way to credit Miss Piastro with the translation: "Leave me alone...
...consulate's paved backyard. They saw consulate staff members push at the heavy door (rolling the broken-boned woman roughly on her side) and in a clumsy panic, try to lift her. They saw two New York policemen, who had scaled the high iron fence around the courtyard, crowd in after the Russians as they carried her into the building...