Word: sixth-floor
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...moment, "Woodstein," as they are known collectively, are practicing journalism in a small sixth-floor office at the Post, where they are writing a book about the last 100 days of the Nixon Administration. Some of the more important Nixon loyalists examined in their first volume, All the President's Men, have refused to be interviewed. The pair are behind schedule on the book, and had to hire an outside researcher to help them...
...secretive as his presidency. Accompanied by Pat and Julie, he walked briskly into Long Beach Memorial Hospital Medical Center through a truck-dock entrance leading to the kitchens. Surprised by two hunch-playing reporters, he blurted a confused "Good morning-good afternoon." He went on up to his sixth-floor suite, located in a twelve-room wing that had been cleared of other patients to ensure his security and privacy. Then once again, the doors closed on the outside world...
...constantly shadowed by a hovering clutch of Secret Service men on the breathless course from Algeria to Egypt to Jordan, and back and forth between Syria and Israel. One of the agents even swam parallel with her, stroke for stroke, when she came down to the pool from the sixth-floor apartment that she and her husband occupied at Jerusalem's King David Hotel...
...France, almost define the good life that young Parisians aspire to. Pierre, 35, is a successful urban development consultant with an income of $22,000. France, 32, is a part-time decorator who earns more than $6,000 a year. They live in a handsome but inexpensive six-room, sixth-floor apartment on the Rue de Ponthieu, just a block from the Champs-Elysées, with their two small daughters. A full-time maid lives on the floor above. In winter the Raguins take a week off to ski in the French Alps; in summer they rent a modestly...
Even after we follow Swanson, Herrnstein, and "the group--its numbers now swollen to 20-25" on and off of two elevators, pace the sixth-floor corridor of William James with them, and walk with them in and out of the seminar room, we never learn what happened. Still less do we learn what it was all about...