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...messenger boy. By 1948, he had shouldered his way up to head the Arab Bank of the Middle East, only to lose all his capital when he fled Israel as a refugee. Rounding up $4,000, he opened a currency exchange office in two dingy fourth-floor rooms in Beirut. With typical flourish, he named the operation "International Traders." Says he: "We had to have a name out of all proportion to our size to impress people...
Though often blasted by his critics, left-leaning French Author Jean-Paul Sartre, 56, was never really bombed-until last week. Then supporters of the French ultras, obviously nettled by Sartre's stumping for Algerian independence, planted a bomb outside his fourth-floor walkup apartment on Paris' Left Bank. Sartre was judiciously vacationing at the time, and no one was hurt...
Visitors crowd around Barry Goldwater's fourth-floor suite in the old Senate Office Building, hoping to earn a passing handclasp or a hastily scrawled autograph. During a recent trip to the Midwest, a worshipful couple approached Goldwater in Des Moines to say that even their two-year-old daughter had pledged her allegiance : "After the campaign, we asked her who she was for, and she said, 'Gold-wah-wah.' " On college campuses, where Goldwater buttons and sprouting Goldwater clubs symbolize a bold challenge to liberal orthodoxy, he is an authentic hero; Young Americans for Freedom...
...city limits, sent him fleeing to the local U.N. troops for sanctuary. Then Kashamura began to fear Gizenga assassins under his bed-and also asked U.N. protection. When he finally ventured out of hiding, he was still nervous. Startled by a commotion in the hall outside his fourth-floor office in Bukavu's Riviera Hotel, he leaped for the window; friends had to restrain him from jumping out. One day last week Anicet Kashamura quietly vanished, and was last seen speeding down the road toward Stanleyville in the custody of Gizenga's agents...
...spent 18 months answering letters, it dawned upon me that it was odd these people had to ask me. So I started on another book, trying to tell them what to do." This second book, entitled A Nation of Sheep, was completed five days ago in a fourth-floor room of Lowell House's AA entry. He wrote it alone...