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...concierges are divided into four categories, and those in the most common category, the second, have 14 specific duties to perform, from disposing of garbage and locking the outside doors to preventing pipes from freezing and watching out for leaks and fires. Concierges are stationed in loges, usually combined ground-floor offices and small apartments which are rent-free. Salaries run from $10 to $20 a month, and concierges are expected to be on duty from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., six days a week. If a concierge goes on vacation, she must find a substitute at her own expense...
Anticipating a different kind of carnival, American diplomats in Moscow boarded up the embassy's ground-floor windows. A few hours later, 200 Russian students gathered before the building waving placards and shouting "Cuba yes, Yankee No!" Bottles of purple ink were hurled against the embassy wall before 50 Russian militiamen broke up the crowd. This first contrived affair was relatively mild. Later 3,000 ink-hurling students and workers smashed windows and chanted slogans for 3½ hours...
...story building was barely distinguishable from dozens of other new, white apartment houses in the middle-class European quarter of Algiers-even to the crudely painted SALAN across one wall. But the plainclothesmen had made no mistake. Minutes later, they were inside a three-room, ground-floor apartment, their service revolvers leveled at ex-General Raoul Salan. In the heart of the city where his men boasted of being "as safe as fish in the sea," almost one year to the day since his arrival in Algiers to take part in the abortive Generals' Revolt, the head...
...cartoonist was inspired by an actual string of unsolved Riviera thefts -four in the last 18 months. So, probably, were the crooks, who simply turned a key in an iron grille gate, jimmied an inner door, and, in less time than it took to catalogue the loss, cleared the ground-floor walls of the converted 18th century chapel of all but four paintings...
Lowered Rope. On the floors above live the pimps and madams who control the lives and collect the earnings of the 500 De Walletjes whores. The estimate of daily customers ranges from 7,000 to 10,000. Very often the instant a client has left the stuffy, overheated ground-floor room, the pimp will lower a rope to which the prostitute must fasten the money she has earned. One madam, named Aunt Miep. would get outraged if she heard a girl wasting time talking to a client, and would stamp her crippled leg on the floor and scream...