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Hotels were jammed with tourists, conventioneers and suburbanites who could not make it home because the electric-powered commuter trains were out. At the Algonquin, guests were unable to get into their rooms for an hour because the doors lock electronically. Many spent the night partying at the round tables in the dining room that was made famous by Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker. At the New York Hilton, switchboard operators phoned each room to tell guests that two can dles were in every bureau?fixtures since the 1965 blackout. The hotel offered free coffee and food through the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BLACKOUT: NIGHT OF TERROR | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...Kingkill has more on its mind than special effects. The two main characters, Schlumberger and Maelzel, lock themselves in a struggle as tense and potentially humiliating as a championship chess match. Maelzel tempts the malformed Schlumberger into his machinery by using Louise Rouault, the wife of a mechanic-assistant, as bait. Eventually, Louise disappears but Schlumberger remains. The Turk frees him from the fear of losing a match publicly and gives him the power to expose Maelzel at any time. For his part, Maelzel exploits Schlumberger's gift for his own profit and dreams of a truly automated player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man in the Automaton | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

Newby expected the management to lock him out of the Central Square theater yesterday, as the owners of the Harvard Square Theater did last July, but instead no action was taken and Newby sat in the projection booth, watching a non-union projectionist at work...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Union May Act Against Local Cinema | 6/16/1977 | See Source »

...group of freshmen were locked out of Weld, so they used a Bursars card to open the lock from the outside...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Bursarmania | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

Someone from the Fly Club walked over to him and said the club did not know anyone was to use the property and asked Coccalis to lock the gate, adding that Coccalis could stay if he wished...

Author: By Anthony Y. Strike, | Title: Fly Club Snafus | 5/13/1977 | See Source »

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