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...could not have been an easy situation for anyone concerned. While Sanchez worked in his second-floor office of La Fortaleza, the Governor's mansion, with Jeannette near by, his wife occupied a ground-floor office almost directly underneath, where she held court as the commonwealth's first lady. As the romance blossomed, so did Jeannette's governmental duties. Before she resigned, she not only acted as the Governor's assistant but also headed the Department of State, the protocol section, the Institute of Culture and press relations...
Sunrise Serenade. The Zurich bank, which occupies sleek second-floor offices on the Schützengasse, is a Swiss-chartered joint stock company with initial assets of $2.3 million. It has been christened Wozchod Handelsbank, or Sunrise Commercial Bank; Chairman Albert Nikolaevich Belishchenko, 36, a career banker who was formerly vice-director of Moscow's Gosbank, says the name refers to the spaceships that the Russians launched in 1964 and 1965. Belishchenko takes pains to allay Swiss fears that Moscow will use the bank to dump gold and otherwise disrupt the tiny nation's financial ties to other...
Wary of Certainties. For all its enthusiasm for Village affairs, the Voice brings a touch of redeeming skepticism to its coverage. The caution may be a reflection of Editor Dan Wolf, 44, a recluse of sorts who closets himself in the second-floor office of the small Village Voice building in the busy center of the West Village. "His job," says Assistant Editor Jack Newfield, "is to orchestrate the obsessions of his staff...
Gloria Davy lay nude and face down on a downstairs divan, strangled and mutilated. Sue Farris was stabbed nine times and strangled, her wrist-bound body left in a second-floor bathroom. Mary Ann Jordan's corpse was in a front bedroom, stabbed five times, including one thrust in the left eye and one in the heart. Next to her were Pat Matusek, strangled with wrists bound; and Pam Wilkening, also bound by the wrists, who had been stabbed in the heart. In the adjoining front bedroom sprawled Nina Schmale, bound at the wrists, gagged, knifed four times...
...Glow. In Washington, it was past 3 a.m. and the last U.S. plane had headed home. In the second-floor room in the White House where Lyndon Johnson sleeps, a bedside lamp glowed as the President talked in a low voice with the situation room in the West Wing basement. There, by instantaneous Teletype circuit to the Far East, military duty officers were checking in the returning jets...