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Kuhrmeier concealed this operation from his superiors in Zurich. Whenever bank auditors visited the Chiasso branch, the books that recorded Kuhrmeier's Texon dealings and other incriminating papers were spirited through a private doorway into a collaborating law firm next door. Crédit Suisse's Chiasso branch, says Bernhard Miiller, director of the Swiss Banking Commission, "was a bank within a bank...
...good fortune seemed beyond bounds. The baby's cries seemed hardly noticeable, at least no more so than the trolley cars which clanged above our heads, outside. Close to midnight, by which time our host and we had drunk silly quantities of wine, his wife appeared in the doorway of what must have been the bedroom, wearing an old flannel bathrobe. "Are you coming to bed soon?" she asked. Her husband shrugged himself out of his chair, his shirt hanging loosely from his trousers, purple stains of zinfandel on all three of us. My friend and I went reluctantly...
...chance to get away from the corridors after corridors. Once he found a way out of them, a door into sunlight. He should have run hard and far and dove into a cold mountain stream. And returned, if he could then see a reason. The narrator left the doorway uncrossed, to return to the heart of the Pentagon, to seek his mission underneath the undying fluorescent lights, in the midst of all the senseless plans. He stays to search where the absurdities are carefully ordered and illuminated. As noted, it drives him crazy. The second part of the book...
...locker-room language with, "Christ says don't consider yourself better than someone else because one guy screws a whole bunch of women while the other guy is loyal to his wife." The comments came after the interview apparently had ended and Carter was standing at the doorway of his home, seemingly unable to shut either the door or his mouth...
...stood in the doorway of his brown shingle house just several doors from the site, looking over his shoulder while puffing away at his pipe, obviously ill at ease on the subject of the murders...