Word: foundings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students, scholars, workers and dilettantes who plunge into the institution's collections each year, there are plenty of shocks and threats. Tramps are sometimes to be found stripped naked in the men's room, washing their only set of clothes. This May a reader in the Main Reading Room was suddenly stabbed by the person sitting next to him. The assailant turned out to be a mental patient on day release from a Manhattan psychiatric institution. He wanted to be readmitted because the food was better there than at home, and resorted to violence to get attention. Especially...
...idea how to end it. My problem was to translate inchoate ideas-however deeply held-into policy. Ours was the perpetually inconclusive dialogue between statesmen and prophets, between those who operate in time and through attainable stages and those who are concerned with truth and the eternal. I found it easier to respect these committed and consistent pacifists, who hated all killing, than those whose morality was selective, who condemned American military actions but not North Vietnamese or Indian or Soviet...
...come back for more money, will you? Once we do it and help you, don't come back a second time." Well, I'd rather not go to Washington at all; I'd rather figure out another way. If I found a rich Arab, I'd take him in a minute and under some pretty tough conditions. I say to Miller and group: "Hey, don't get mad at me, I'm new here too." They reply: "Geez, we wish you'd go away. You picked a lousy time to start going bankrupt...
When the cops came they found the judge had planted evidence...
...follower of police fiction knows well, it does not always pay to call the cops. Paul N. Halvonik, 40, a California Courts of Appeal justice, and his lawyer wife Deborah, 37, apparently do not read police fiction. Returning to their home in Oakland Hills early one evening, Mrs. Halvonik found that a burglar had stolen $1,450 worth of television and video-tape equipment. She called the cops. The Oakland P.D., in the person of Patrolman Monte Beers, responded in short order. While checking out the perpetrator's point of entry, Officer Beers later reported, he spotted some long...