Word: door
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three Days of the Condor. Always use the back door. You never know, you may slip out for lunch one minute and return the next, pastrami and mustard in hand to find all your office mates spread across their desks, covered with blood. Meek and mild-mannered Robert Redford, who translates Russian novels for U.S. intelligence, came home to just such a spread, and leaving lunch aside, stepped into a phone booth and became "The Condor." The transformation is not complete--Redford is rather mild-mannered as a hero, too. When he calls into Central, he becomes a critical...
...infighting did not permanently scar students but some still cringe at the memories. One former student, for example, angrily recalls the night when members of SDS left a dead rat outside his friend's door. For others, the memory of those days has kept them away from Cambridge. Kenneth Glazier '69 was an anti-war moderate who expected to spend the spring of his senior year playing frisbee in the courtyard. Instead he unexpectedly found himself, as a leader of the Student-Faculty Advisory Committee, chairing the mass meeting at Memorial Church when the strike was called. Caught...
...Martinez and her daughter Chastity Dawn, 4, sat out the storm in the bathroom of her apartment in the Sun Valley development, where the clocks stopped at 6:15 p.m. sharp. "I leaned my back against the door and listened to the building tearing apart," said Martinez. "I thought that I was going to die. Things started flying, mud and water started coming under the bathroom door, and I could hear people screaming for help." Although Sun Valley was almost completely destroyed, she and Chastity Dawn escaped unscathed. Just a few hundred yards away, however, several people dining...
...bundle of rags lying on the grass in the large open park known locally as "the moor." Not far away was a single brown stack-heeled shoe. Coming closer, the woman discovered Josephine's body; she had died only 300 yards away from her parents' front door. The bruised, bloodstained corpse bore distinctive wounds, convincing police that a sadistic killer known as the "Yorkshire Ripper" had claimed another victim. Declared George Oldfield, assistant chief constable of the West Yorkshire police: "Clearly, we have a homicidal maniac at large...
...were the people who built the movement, though, the people who opened the door and saw what was going on inside, however briefly, "Carl Offner, a former member of the Worker-Student Alliance said...