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...staff not only has left them the usual basket of fruit but has also remembered their taste for violets, which are in a Baccarat bowl, and Degas prints. Returning after dinner, they find that the triple- sheeted bed has been turned down, with Godiva mints set on the pillow and a small bottle of cognac on the night table. Before retiring they put their shoes outside the door; the valet will, of course, polish them overnight...
...night last October, two gunmen burst into the Isfahan bedroom of Anglican Bishop Hassan Barnaba Dehqani-Tafti and his British-born wife Margaret, spraying them with automatic-pistol fire. Four bullets pierced the pillow near the bishop's head. Amazingly, he was not hit, though his wife received a bullet in the arm. The bishop, president of the Central Synod which includes all Anglicans in the Middle East, fled to exile in Cyprus...
...invented seven years ago at Penn State, but it takes a while to get an undercover fad going. Only this year did a campus divertissement known as the "tuck-in" spread to the University of Maryland, where a group of male students calling themselves Pillow Talk Inc. offered chaste bedtime tuck-ins to any classmate in the women's dorm with 99?. That price included the company of one Teddy bear for the night, a final kiss on the cheek from one of a trio of males, two of them in three-piece suits. Best...
...Pillow Talk members boast of administering at least 100 tuck-ins in the past term alone and attribute their success to the "father image" they convey. Maryland women began offering their own service, but with more personnel and at less cost-25? per tuck-in. Asked their ad in the campus paper: "When was the last time you had five girls tuck you into bed?" William L. Thomas, Maryland's vice chancellor for student affairs, endorses the trend. "It's a very gentle custom," he says. When the women heard Thomas wistfully admit he had never been tucked...
...covers over me. Lying alongside my body under the blanket was the big ax handle. I could sweep that handle out in a second and knock two men off their feet by striking directly at their knees. In my hand was the knife, and the pipe was under my pillow. I was ready...