Word: third-floor
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...enemy is Lyndon Johnson; the war is disastrous in every way," cried Baby Doctor Benjamin Spock. Aroused by acrimony and acid-rock, the crowd moved exuberantly out across the Arlington Memorial Bridge toward the Pentagon. Inside the Pentagon, a siege mood prevailed. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara had entered his third-floor office at 8:15 a.m. and immersed himself in his customary workload. The skeleton staff of 3,000 that usually mans the Pentagon on Saturdays had been sharply pared by orders to all personnel to stay home unless their presence was absolutely necessary. In the four underground tunnels that...
Living Torch. At the height of the midday shopping hour, Catherine Seydel, a 22-year-old student, picked out a dress she liked and entered a third-floor booth to try it on. Suddenly she heard a thunderous rumble on the floor above her. When she emerged from the booth, she entered a maelstrom of fear and panic. In rapid succession, flames had erupted in at least three locations around the store. Two of the store's 15 full-time firemen-the building had no sprinklers-tried to douse the flames with hand extinguishers, but retreated in the fast...
...third-floor boardroom of Boston's State Street Bank Building, directors of the Lee Higginson Corp. grimly debated for eight hours the future of their firm-oldest and one of the most famous of U.S. investment houses. When they finally arrived at a decision, Lee Higginson was dead. For an "undisclosed amount," Manhattan's relatively youthful (age 74), fast-growing (60 branches) Hayden, Stone Inc. bought Lee Higginson's name (which it will not use), offices and assets in Boston, New York, Chicago and four other cities...
...wackiest pirate of them all isn't even a ballplayer. Bob Prince, 49, the team's radio-TV announcer, is a skinny character who is famous for his loud sport coat and once leaped from a third-floor window into a swimming pool to win a bet. Two weeks ago, when the Pirates changed planes in Dallas, Prince refused to let a stewardess take his tape recorder, explaining: "It's as sensitive as a bomb." He had barely settled into his seat before FBI agents arrived...
...when the 70-year-old patient, staying overnight in Walter Reed Hospital for a routine early-morning checkup, swung his legs from under the covers to get up. Drowsy and unaccustomed to the high hospital bed, Everett Dirksen went sprawling onto the vinyl floor of his third-floor V.I.P. suite, instantly felt a pain shoot along his hip. The diagnosis: a fracture of the right femur...