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English in Clean Alley. Alexei is fastidious, ascetic and persistently optimistic. He lives in monastic simplicity at the Patriarchate on Chisty Pereulok (clean alley), in a ground-floor room filled with ikons, paintings and sculptures...
...jitsu trick and somewhat erratic marksmanship were all that had saved the President. When Avila Camacho stepped from his Cadillac limousine at the ground-floor entrance of the Palacio Nacional, he was accosted by 1st Lieut. José Antonio de Lama y Rojas, son of a wealthy merchant from the President's home state of Puebla. As the President turned to enter the private elevator, the 32-year-old lieutenant pulled a .45 revolver, blazed away. Before a second shot could be fired, the President grasped the assassin's wrist, twisted it until the gun clattered...
Next week Dr. Temple will return to London to live amid the bombed ruins of Lambeth Palace, using such ground-floor rooms of it as remain. This 752-year-old seat of the Archbishops of Canterbury is just across the Thames from Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament. "It is the business of Lambeth," said Dr. Temple at Malvern last year, "to remind Westminster of its responsibilities to God." Now that he occupies Lambeth, he is not likely to shirk that task...
...while he ate his lunch. Then he left. At 4:30 that afternoon he was back again. He ordered two old-fashioneds, sipped them slowly. Suddenly he rose from his table and went into the lobby. Ten minutes later an attendant found him slumped in a chair in the ground-floor men's room. At his feet was a 32-calibre automatic. Blood ran from the hole behind his ear. In the memorandum book police found an eight-page note to his wife. Over & over it repeated: "This is the only way out. ... I am tired of fighting...
Last week the Senate's Great Inconsistent strolled daily from his ground-floor office in the Senate Office Building to his bare workroom hideaway in the Capitol, his shadow falling black on the worn paving...