Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chunky, spectacled Frank Bielaski, an ex-Wall Street broker turned Government secret agent, had handled many cases for OSS during the war. One midnight, tracing down the document quoted in Amerasia, Bielaski and four aides let themselves into a dark, empty building at 225 Fifth Avenue. They took an elevator to the eleventh floor and there, by what Bielaski later called "deceit and subterfuge," entered Amerasia's office. Once inside, they began a careful inspection. They found one room fitted out with photocopy equipment, a desk in another room spread with copies of Government documents. Behind a door were...
...least seven Cambridge police cars finally swarmed around and through the Quad at midnight. Riot-breaking tactics seemed to consist of driving the squad cars through the crowd with sirens wailing. This brought cheers of approval from the rioters. The Yardlings began to disperse only when the police dismounted and began taking bursar's cards. Police only seemed to have a handful of cards, but when queried a police official claimed 300 had been collected...
...Amboy was damaged. Regular troops from nearby Fort Monmouth were rushed in, took up guard over the blasted banks and the post office. In Perth Amboy, two miles across the estuary, hundreds were cut by shattering glass and a chunk of steel buried itself in a downtown sidewalk. By midnight, South Amboy swarmed with ambulances and fire engines. Some 350 people were injured, 57 of them hospitalized. Others patched their own cuts, tramped the streets peering at wrecked stores, excitedly comparing notes. Through the town's shattered windows, white curtains flapped like pallid flags in the cold breeze...
...Mass at Midnight. At the news of the discovery, the whole country went wild. Soon all roads to Cartago were choked with pilgrims-afoot, in oxcarts, and automobiles. Ahead of them they could see hundreds of skyrockets set off by delirious cartagineses...
...Near midnight President Otilio Ulate arrived to join the crowd packed into the steaming church. Archbishop Sanabria celebrated Mass; brilliantly illuminated in her golden monstrance above the altar,, the black Virgin smiled down once more on her flock. In the first joyful hours, only the archbishop and the police seemed to remember the murder and the missing gold and jewels...