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...Rights. No one denies that Ray is being guarded with extraordinary zeal. Since his extradition from England last July, he has been kept in a third-floor cell in the Memphis courthouse, watched over by two ever-present deputies. Eight bright mercury-vapor lamps burn at all times. Two closed-circuit TV cameras are always trained on the cell. Except when Ray is conferring with his lawyer, a microphone listens in. Only one other murder suspect in the U.S. is currently being held under such strict security provisions. That man is Sirhan Sirhan, who will stand trial in Los Angeles...
Some deaths were unwilled accidents of anarchy. Eleven-month-old Everett Austin of Chicago burned to death in his crib when a fire was set in his family's third-floor apartment. His mother was next door...
...result of mounting public pressure, the state prosecutor launched an investigation into the 1948 death of Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk. The official explanation of Masaryk's death was that he had committed suicide by jumping to the pavement from his third-floor bathroom window. Researchers in recent years have collected considerable evidence indicating that the Communists shoved Masaryk to his death. The liberals are determined to examine all available details of the case...
...third-floor of fice of the Pentagon's E-Ring could not have assumed command at a more critical juncture. As Clark McAdams Clifford, 61, was sworn in last week as the nation's ninth Secretary of Defense, succeeding Robert S. McNamara, the U.S. once again stood at a crossroads in Viet Nam-perhaps the most important one. And it is Clifford who, from the massive desk once owned by General of the Armies John ("Black Jack") Pershing, will play a major and possibly decisive role in determining which path the U.S. takes...
Rudenstine's manipulation of the Hum 6 mystique has probably won him the most fans. Perched cross-legged atop a table in a dreary, third-floor Sever room, he gently probes the intricacies of Eliot and James and Shakespeare, urging his section towards the Hum 6 View of the World. It doesn't always work: the Hum 6 magic-show of extracting meaning from symbols overwhelms some students and exasperates others. But they keep coming back. "Because we love Mr. Rudenstine," a Cliffie says...