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...moon shone that Saturday night in March 1960 in St. Martin, a picturesque dot of a town on the coast of Jersey, largest of the bucolic Channel Islands. As the village slept, a silent intruder broke into a small cottage, abducted a 14-year-old girl from her ground-floor bedroom and led her to a nearby field, where he raped her and nearly strangled her by twisting a rope around her neck...
...prison by other Tupamaros, who were confined in cells on the third floor. These cells had already been clandestinely connected by chipping away the mortar so that bricks could be removed and replaced with ease. Holes had also been drilled in the end cells on each floor, allowing the Tupamaros to move from their third-floor cells to the second and first floors on makeshift ladders of blankets and wood. By the time the break took place, a tunnel had already been dug leading from a ground-floor cell and under the prison wall to the Rial house. Prison officials...
...their hinges. Two guards and two prisoners were injured. Three days later, fire alarms sounded at the headquarters of the Electricity Board of Northern Ireland, and the office staff trooped down the back stairway-just in time to catch the full force of a gelignite bomb hidden in a ground-floor locker. One man was killed, and 35 other employees, mostly women, were slashed by flying debris. A few hours after that, an incendiary bomb was found in Belfast's new $5 million Europa Hotel...
This time around the heroine is Beatrice, the divorced/widowed mother of two high-school girls, one a sluttish convulsive, the other a painfully shy Plain Jane. Beatrice's family makes its home in a ground-floor apartment that looks like the setting of The Glass Menagerie thirty years and several natural disasters later. For money there is the rent mother collects from cruel families who dump their dying elderly in the flat's spare room...
...enthusiastic about a film series called Civilisation, written and narrated by British Art Historian Kenneth Clark. The tiny 300-seat auditorium at Washington's National Gallery was jammed throughout the series' initial 13-week run. The White House ordered up a special showing in its elegant ground-floor theater on a twice-a-week schedule. In New York, the Metropolitan Museum and New York University showed it at Manhattan's Town Hall for invitation-only audiences and found they had to have six screenings per episode to accommodate the demand. Since then, museums and universities have bought...