Word: third-floor
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...four days Dwight Eisenhower stayed close to his cliffside room in the Hotel Thayer at West Point, gazing out on an ice-choked Hudson River and the snow-covered hills. Outside his third-floor "presidential" suite, an MP stood guard. Downstairs in the basement grill, several hundred college girls and their cadet dates devoured cheeseburgers and malted milks while a juke box thumped out Goodnight, Irene...
...brain behind RFE's voice is the privately organized, privately financed National Committee for a Free Europe, Inc., which for the past 19 months has been organizing a mounting psychological war against the Soviet Union from third-floor offices in Manhattan's Empire State Building. Basing its information on reports from exiled satellite leaders and its own intelligence pipelines through the Iron Curtain, the committee drafts, records, and ships off some 100 scripts a week for airing from RFE's transmitter...
...third-floor lounge of the Metropolitan Opera House one morning last week, 40 members of the Met chorus were taking a rehearsal break when a large, pink-cheeked woman passed their open door. Was it? Yes, it was. Choristers called out an impromptu greeting: "Welcome back, Madame Flagstad...
...unexplained fire which broke out in a third-floor Dudley room about 9 p.m. last night brought Cambridge Fire Chief John F. Collins and three engine companies, but caused only minor damage before it was extinguished...
...This is an Office of Civilian Defense sound truck," he cried into the mike. "Unidentified airplanes approaching New York City. All residents black out. Prepare for atomic attack!" Then he turned up the amplifier volume, producing a sirenlike screaming sound. The windows of the Gordons' third-floor apartment-like those of most of the apartments around it-were open. The results of his announcement on the teeming Bronx exceeded Stanley's fondest expectations...