Word: lock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another break-in is arranged for June 17. But shortly after 1 a.m., Private Security Guard Frank Wills spots a door in the Watergate with its lock taped open. He summons the police, who catch McCord, Barker, Sturgis, Gonzalez and Martinez in the D.N.C. The police confiscate surveillance equipment and find 32 sequentially numbered $100 bills, which Barker has withdrawn from the $89,000 in Miami...
...main actors in this part of the Watergate drama form a remarkable profile of America. There is Frank Wills, the black guard who found the tape on the lock of a Watergate building door and called the police. Reporters Bob Woodward, an Ivy Leaguer, and Carl Bernstein, a dropout from the University of Maryland, enlarged that slender thread into the picture of corruption. Judge John Sirica, the Italian American and old welterweight, applied common sense and created a new sense of justice. Senator Sam Ervin, with a little help from St. Paul and Shakespeare, provided the best civics lesson...
With the astonished landlord trailing in his wake, the young burglar who had previously robbed the place roamed the apartment complex, suggesting a change of lock here, a sturdier door there and providing other professional advice on security. Another Minneapolis felon recently brought his disabled car to the garage where he had once passed a $123 bad check that landed him in prison. One thief now gets along so well with the shopkeeper he once stole from that he was offered a job in the store...
...stay, Stalin would sometimes not lay eyes on him for days at a time, and since Stalin neither saw Mao nor ordered anyone else to entertain him, no one dared go see him. Rumors began reaching our ears that Mao was not at all happy, that he was under lock and key, and that everyone was ignoring him. Mao let it be known that if the situation continued, he would leave. When Stalin heard about Mao's complaints, I think he had another dinner for him. Stalin was anxious to create the impression that we were on the best...
archy and mehitabel, an adaptation of don marquis's story of a cat and a cockroach who couldn't depress the shift lock, officially opened on sunday. unofficially it's been running for about a year, of course, but it's always nice to do things right. sort of like henry aaron hitting it in atlanta. weekends, 2:30 p.m., theater two at 196 broadway, along with Changes (Brecht and two contemporary one-actors) in the evenings...