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Climbing over the fence was strictly forbidden, but I can tell you how it was done. Stand facing either the east or west gate (the method worked for both). Place your left foot between the wrought-iron bars directly over the lock, pull yourself up by holding the topmost spikes firmly with both hands, swing your right foot into one of the iron rings at the top of the gate, bring your left leg up and around, and you're home. That's all there was to it, in terms...
...forearm at an armed robber and grimaces, "Make my day." Then Harry insults a Mob chieftain with such savagery that the old man suffers a fatal heart attack. "Hey," he later shrugs to his apoplectic chief of detectives, "how'd I know he was gonna vapor-lock...
...police were just about to give up their search of the lonely Amsterdam warehouse. Then, by chance, one of them spotted a lock on the corrugated-tin wall at the back of the building. The opening led to a false wall, complete with a secret door. As they burst through the hardboard front, members of the 70-man police unit suddenly came upon two soundproof and unheated concrete cells. Inside each one a man, clad only in filthy pajamas, lay shivering on a mattress and manacled to the walls. Three weeks after Beer Tycoon Alfred (Freddie) Heineken...
...tale of the missing documents began last summer, after the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research decided to refurbish six safes-actually bar-lock file cabinets that are kept in a vault. Their contents were to be transferred to microfilm, and the empty safes sent to Lorton Reformatory, a maximum-security prison in Virginia that had contracted to fix up Government furniture...
Even with Epps's policy and the special lock on the gate, the garden's day-to-day access is limited to Fly members, who use the lawn whenever they please, without requesting special permission. The fence at the garden's fringes effectively prevents everyone else from entering the land...