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Minutes after the man hung up and strode out, the Square de l'Archevêché started filling with French police. Just as the man said, a small delivery truck was parked in the alley, and inside it the gendarmes found a gagged, trussed, middle-aged man. Lifting the blindfold, a cop peered at the battered, bloody face and nodded: "It looks like Argoud...
...Slow. Minutes later, Zantzinger strode to the bar for another drink. Mrs. Hattie Carroll, 51, a Negro barmaid, did not move fast enough for him. "What's the matter with you, you black son of a bitch, serving my drinks so slow?" he railed. He beat her with his cane. She collapsed and an ambulance was called...
Into the glass-enclosed winter garden of his pink palace strode Katanga's Secessionist Moise Tshombe with an important announcement. "I am pleased to have ended my work and have done my duty," Tshombe told newsmen, and now he would be leaving for Northern Rhodesia to take care of a troublesome eye ailment. How long would he be gone? "The doctors will decide that," said Tshombe, but Elisabethville hummed with rumors that he was going for good. Moise did nothing to squelch the gossip, for 48 hours after he left his capital he was on a plane bound...
...reference librarian still laughs at me even now that I quit the job, but I'll bet he wouldn't be smiling if he knew I'd duplicated his keys." Gridley strode confidently up to Level B and out the back entrance to the stacks. A sinister smile played over his features as he hurried down the tiled hallway toward the main elevator. Checking to see that no one watched him, he slipped into a dark alcove and fitted a key into what looked like a closet door. "Section X," be exclaimed as he plunged into the fabled Inferno that...
...swirling snow of a Moscow winter morning last week, 32 shabby peasants suddenly appeared at the iron gates of the U.S. embassy at 19/21 Tchaikovsky Street, brushed past the Russian guards on the sidewalk, and strode inside. To flabbergasted American diplomats they put a startling request: Help us get out of Russia...