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...aides occupied the middle room of a three-room suite called Penthouse One. [It was the command post, referred to as The Office in the aides' jargon.] It had a door with a peephole grill. Anyone passed through the partition door had to undergo a second inspection before being admitted to The Office...
...while an anxious nation watched its television screens, the supremely confident Carter knew the way his personal winds were blowing. He awaited the returns in a starkly modern three-room suite in Atlanta's Omni Hotel?a posh setting that contrasted with the humble accommodations, often at the homes of supporters, that he had used as he began his once lonely campaign 22 months ago. At 11 p.m. he placed a call to Massachusetts' Congressman Tip O'Neill, who is in line to become Speaker of the House. In his soft drawl Carter said: "Tip, I feel confident now that...
Some juniors who expected to have private bedrooms this year were disappointed at the last moment by the exodus of students from Mather. Bob Sullivan '78, a Kirkland House resident who originally planned to share a three-room suite with two other people, wound up with unexpected company in a closet-like bedroom when a Mather sophomore was shuffled over to Kirkland. Desks now control almost all the space in Sullivan's small living room. "We have three desks for four people. I think they have furniture but even if they did we couldn't get it in here," Sullivan...
...Island district in 1960 ("I've always been surrounded on three sides by water and on the fourth side by Republicans"). Pike harbors a secret yen to be a "charter captain half the time and a political writer the other half," but he settles for cruises off Long Island in the 30-year-old Navy launch he bought for $8,250. Pike and his wife Doris still live in the two-story Victorian frame house where he was born; in Washington, he occupies a modest three-room apartment above a delicatessen near the Capitol...
...contemporary head of state. But when he was finally deposed in September 1974 by the military leaders of the "creeping coup," which had been enveloping Ethiopia for seven months, the tiny (5 ft. 4 in.) ruler was whisked away from his palace in a Volkswagen and imprisoned in a three-room mud hut. Only later was he moved to more comfortable quarters at the Grand Palace. It was there that the aged Lion, still caged, died in his sleep last week, apparently from the aftereffects of recent prostate surgery...