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...knowing what to expect, I went to Massachusetts Hall last month a few hours after an SDS demonstration, to make an appointment with Pusey. The outside door was locked. I knocked and a University policeman unlocked the door from the inside. The policeman questioned me in the small alcove, told me to wait there, and brought Pusey's secretary to me, locking us both in the alcove while we discussed our business. Pusey's secretary remained in the alcove until after I left via the outside door. She later telephoned and said that Pusey would see me in ten days...
When I returned to Massachusetts Hall, a plainclothes University policeman ushered me into the reception room. At the precise moment the interview was supposed to begin, Pusey's secretary came out from an office further down the hall. She led me down the corridor to the corner office on the left. Plush red carpeting covered both the hallway and Pusey's office, which is spacious with an unusual, empty look...
...Israeli school bus. Nine small children, three teachers and the bus driver died in the bazooka attack near Baram, and Dayan made it plain that Israel held Beirut responsible for the guerrillas' action. "If the Lebanese government declares it is not obliged to serve as a policeman to stop the terrorists," said Dayan, "then we will...
Charles Reid, a member of a special mayor's committee for easing tensions in the ghetto, reported seeing one suspected looter shot repeatedly in the back by a black policeman and his white partner. By midevening, Chief Bequest was asking for outside help to bolster his 130-man force, and Governor Lester Maddox responded by sending in 100 state troopers and 200 members of the Georgia National Guard; another 1,000 Guardsmen arrived the following day. By morning, most of the violence was over...
Scaling the Glass Mountain. What goes on in Barthelme's surrealistic, mad-dance little world? In the first place, it is peopled with the oddest, the most chillingly funny characters: Horace, a gourmet-policeman, whose pièce de résistance is Rock Cornish hen; Lars Bang, a coachman out of a period print who hits and runs like a Mafia mobster; and there is even the Phantom of the Opera's Friend...