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...Quiet. Equally thorough preparations were being made inside the prison by other Tupamaros, who were confined in cells on the third floor. These cells had already been clandestinely connected by chipping away the mortar so that bricks could be removed and replaced with ease. Holes had also been drilled in the end cells on each floor, allowing the Tupamaros to move from their third-floor cells to the second and first floors on makeshift ladders of blankets and wood. By the time the break took place, a tunnel had already been dug leading from a ground-floor cell and under...
Sometimes he was assigned the Queens' Bedroom, more often a third-floor guest room. In fact, with only the Secret Service as chaperons, they have week ended wherever they chose ? at Camp David, the White House, Key Biscayne...
Cambridge police arrested Andrew M. Wilson '72 at 9:15 p.m. last night in his third-floor room in Briggs Hall for possession of marijuana-the first such bust at Harvard in at least ten years...
Manolo is always there: waiting by the buzzer in his third-floor White House apartment or West Wing office for the signal to retrieve papers or bring the tray from the kitchen for a working lunch. He serves as a one-man gallery for presidential bowling in the basement, sits quietly in the Executive Office Building hideaway while Nixon works alone late at night, gives the word to Secret Service men and military aides about the departure time for presidential trips. He is the one free spirit of the White House, the pet of secretaries and staff members, who jokes...
...Veterans Hospital, a Spanish-style stucco complex, that was most devastated. Three of the buildings were either demolished or toppled, burying patients-many of them elderly men-in the rubble. Although confined to a wheelchair with a back injury, Bob Dutton said he instantly "learned to walk" as his third-floor room began to sway. "I jumped for the door, and when I reached the hall and turned to look back, there was nothing there -just wide-open space." There were at least 44 dead. But the round-the-clock work of emergency crews paid off, as they delicately carved...