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...wire screen, piling up plump sacks of U.S. currency with the mechanical indifference of butchers stacking daisy hams into a cooler. It was 7 o'clock-time for the Boston office of Brink's, Inc. to tot up the day's armored-truck collections and lock them in the vault for the night...
Practically no one denies the government's right to lock America's doors against undesirable, unfit, or dangerous aliens. But who is undesirable? Is Emmanuel, whose position as an artist convinced two American colleges that he would be good for their students, undesirable...
...staid, arch-conservative Sun. Said Speed in anguished accents: "I am taking you into my confidence because I have a nasty job to do. You must not breathe a word of this. We are being sold today, and I am an absolute wreck." Speed ordered stunned Reporter Johnson to lock himself in the musty, out-of-the-way office of the Antiques editor, there write the story of the death of the 116-year...
...guerre [Maryborough-is going to war]." At the other end, a police functionary would flash the word to the motorized cops who were standing eagerly by to escort the couple to the Mont-Choisi Clinic. Then, after Aly and Rita slipped out, the concierge would lock every exit of the hotel, thus trap the impatient representatives of the world press...
Back to Pokey. After he was turned loose, the law found it necessary to lock him up again for violating his parole: he had celebrated his release by helping a friend bilk an old lady out of her money. When he got out the second time, the war was on. He went to Honolulu, talked himself into a job with the Army Engineers, and in three months was bossing 300 electricians. Then he returned to the mainland and, despite his prison record, got a job at the Hanford atomic-energy plant. In 1944 he went back to California...