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Rumors of a building takeover focus on the Ward Circle Building and an old gymnasium. The gymnasium has negligible toilet facilities, Block said, and is a fire hazard. So the Ward Circle Building, a very large classroom building, has become the more likely target...

Author: By Samuel Z. Goldhaber, | Title: D C Universities Open Buildings To Hold Crowd | 11/15/1969 | See Source »

...marched from 2 to 4 a. m. Friday, in a chilling light rain. The march assembled in green and white plastic tents on the far side of the Potomac. Before they march, people are smiling and optimistic; they joke about the lousy toilet facilities...

Author: By David N. Hollander and Carol R. Sternhell, S | Title: We Call Dead Names | 11/15/1969 | See Source »

...when one is allowed to live again. Jan Overbeek is a ghost, a shadow, a piece of printed paper with a fingerprint and a signature . . . 'I wish I were a flower, I might outlive this Autumn,' I poeted, and flushed this bit of written evidence down the toilet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Guilt by Disassociation | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

Resuming the straight life, Biggs earned $95.26 a week as a carpenter and was eager for Saturday overtime of $27.94. Charmain, after the birth of a third son, worked the 4 to midnight shift as a packer in a toilet-tissue plant. "That's the laugh of the whole thing," she said after her husband fled the police with $40 in his pocket. "You don't work at night in a factory when you have hidden resources." Only occasionally did the Biggses splurge. On their last big evening out, a month ago, a Melbourne nightclub photographer snapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Paradise Lost | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...telephone. "Oh, Miss Jones," the ritual began, "I've got a good lead for today." When he had finished "filing" the story, he sometimes put in another imaginary call-to his 25-year-old daughter in London. He found the perfect use for China's stiff brown toilet paper: he made himself a deck of cards out of it and played solitaire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: End of the Ordeal | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

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