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...Momi did more than any of her comrades from the other six towers to rid the station of the army of rats which swarmed over it after the Allied bombings of 1943. She was quicker to dodge the trains, more artful in picking her way through the lethal maze of high tension lines, fiercer and more cunning in the chase. One by one the other cats disappeared or died, but Momi stayed on, even condescending to learn a few parlor tricks (like raising a paw on command) for the signalmen in Tower...
...museum put on big exhibits of Dutch, Flemish and medieval art, experimented with new ways of displaying art. Once Taylor had visitors wandering through a darkened maze of dramatically lighted objects, listening to a recorded lecture; another time, for a Dark Ages show, he borrowed from a dealer the Great Chalice of Antioch. Without ever committing himself or the museum, he drew the attention of the press to speculation in a recent book as to whether the cup might not be the Holy Grail itself* People flocked to the Worcester Museum, and papers as far away as the Pacific Coast...
...Levittown I, the Levitts didn't know their own strength. They bought land in relatively small parcels and gradually built a town. Of necessity the town grew irregularly, streets were sometimes a maze, commercial areas were located by chance...
Sister Aidan, a 33-year-old Irish Dominican nun, and a physician set off in her tiny English car, to take baskets of food to her Negro patients in the rowdy South African city of East London. At the entrance to the segregated Negro "location" -a maze of tin-can shanties where every other baby dies at birth-she found herself in the midst of a bloody pitched battle between East London's white cops and a mob of tribesmen. The police had broken up an illegal Negro prayer meeting; the result was a race riot which blazed...
...small oriental gentleman was late for his appointment. More than that he was frightened. This maze of steam pipes and empty trunks hardly seemed a fit place to meet the Secretary of Harvard University--and now he couldn't find his way back to open...