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...true partners of Leon Jaworski and the other prosecutors. Once last spring the jury members were so intent on their deliberations that they stayed in session until midnight, when they discovered that the cleaning people had locked them in. It took ten minutes of shouting and pounding before a janitor let them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Trials of the Grand Jury | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

...where everybody sleeps at the end of the day's skiing. The racers never see the card fall out--they are always in a hurry to get to dinners and the fabulous parties at Sigma Etc. that night, and the cards are always swept away by the same janitor--no one knows his name. They say his only amusement is to play gin with the queer old lady late at night...

Author: By Tim Carlson, | Title: Light Whitening | 2/28/1974 | See Source »

...walked down the corridor, around the corner, past the janitor and out of the I.A.B. I was proud of myself. Ultimately I had handled the whole thing pretty smoothly--except I wished I had brought a second piece of paper with...

Author: By Michael C. Winerip, | Title: The Autograph | 1/16/1974 | See Source »

...ducked into the I.A.B., filed a nod of recognition from the janitor, turned the corner, and walked straight down the corridor to Sanders's office. I was unsettled. His door was closed. It occurred to me that maybe coaches don't like to be disturbed when they're making definitive plays. Maybe they get bitchy...

Author: By Michael C. Winerip, | Title: The Autograph | 1/16/1974 | See Source »

...ultimately I am a man of conscience. Slow conscience. Two weeks later I headed back to the I.A.B. I walked out of the gray afternoon and into the building--ignoring the janitor, turning the corner, and heading straight down the corridor for the crucial door...

Author: By Michael C. Winerip, | Title: The Autograph | 1/16/1974 | See Source »

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