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Divide & Conquer. This week Ford Motor Co. was to be served with a similar union demand, in the Silver Room of the Detroit-Leland Hotel. As the bargaining began, U.A.W. (and C.I.O.) President Walter Reuther sat back in his second-floor office at Solidarity House (U.A.W.'s elegant headquarters), ready to manipulate his teams by private telephone lines to each conference suite. He also soft-pedaled strike talk. When a newsman asked whether the auto workers will strike, Reuther replied: "If I knew the answer-and I don't-I wouldn't tell...
After taking the oath, just after noon, Batista strode to a second-floor balcony, delivered a five-minute speech to the 65,000 people in the park below. "My opponents say the people are with them," he cried, "but I say the people are here with me . . . In contrast to those who want war, we want peace. Against those who want blood, we want love...
After the attack, Remington crawled down a flight of steps, was found by a guard on the second-floor landing, dazed and bleeding. In the prison hospital he tried to speak, but the words would not come. Next day, a surgeon operated to remove chips of bone and relieve pressure on the brain from skull fractures. Sixteen hours later, Bill Remington died...
...fanatic Moslem Brotherhood used to be the terror of Egypt; it murdered two Premiers and a police chief, and created shivers of concern among British commanders in the Canal Zone. But last week in a small, second-floor Cairo courtroom, ordinary Egyptians openly laughed at the Brotherhood as, one by one, its high dignitaries, shorn of their imposing beards, shambled forward to stammer confessions and recriminations like so many cringing schoolboys. The occasion: the trial of the Brotherhood leaders accused of attempting to assassinate Premier
...that goes on in the six or eight flats that rump into the same areaway as his, and Hitchcock, in a masterpiece of indirect exposition, lets the moviegoer play Peeping Tom until all at once he sees something that strikes him as-well, peculiar. That burly salesman in the second-floor flat of the modern apartment building, the one who so patiently nurses the complaining invalid wife-why does he make a number of trips out into the rain, one at 2 a.m., carrying his sample-suitcase? And why, all the next day, does he not go into the bedroom...