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...without trial, a bomb blasted the prison's 15 ft. teak-and-iron gates off their hinges. Two guards and two prisoners were injured. Three days later, fire alarms sounded at the headquarters of the Electricity Board of Northern Ireland, and the office staff trooped down the back stairway-just in time to catch the full force of a gelignite bomb hidden in a ground-floor locker. One man was killed, and 35 other employees, mostly women, were slashed by flying debris. A few hours after that, an incendiary bomb was found in Belfast's new $5 million...
...hospital's entrances, small groups of outsize, burly men, wearing tiny green-and-red Italian-American League pins, nervously watched the streets, quickly sizing up each approaching pedestrian. "You watch this stairway," one bull-necked "captain" instructed a younger man. "If somebody goes into the hallway, you follow him. If he gets in the elevator, you get in with him. And if he gets off at the floor, you tell him he can't go no further...
...teenager, water streaming from her tie-dyed shirt, threw her arms around a woman and cried, "Mother, I love you!" A teen-age drug user who had been suffering from recurring unscheduled trips suddenly screamed, "My flashbacks are gone!" As the baptisms ended, the crowd slowly climbed a narrow stairway up the cliff, singing a moving Lord's Prayer in the twilight...
...Harvard-Radcliffe business administration program, Lucy Werner approached the publishing industry in 1964. She found herself facing a long climb in two ways. Her first temporary job was typing in our business office. "I was so easily flustered," recalls Mrs. Werner, "that I accidentally locked myself in the fire stairway. I walked down 34 flights to the ground floor, where I saw a sign over the exit: ALARM WILL SOUND WHEN DOOR IS OPENED. So I took the only rational course of action. I walked all the way back...
...janitor nods half asleep on the front stairway, but jumps up when the door opens and starts vigorously buffing the oak handrail. This is the fifth time he has polished it this week...