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...their attempt, Morris and the Anglins took infinite pains. They stole tablespoons from the mess hall, removed the metal grills from the air vents in their cell walls, and night after night, between the guards' hourly bed checks, gouged the crumbly plaster and concrete from the vent. During the days, they kept the holes covered with cardboard grills that they had painted to resemble the original metal. They carefully collected the powdered concrete and plaster that they chipped away and each day scattered it during their outdoor exercise period...
Bond also seems to have the full range of modern technological fun and games at his fingertips-from automobiles (which fascinate him) to aqualungs. He talks knowledgeably about perfume (though he admits the gaffe of once attributing Vent Vert to Dior instead of Balmain). He is a whiz at games; his adventures include several elaborately described games at which Bond wins five-figure stakes from the villain-usually by out-cheating...
...Sartre explains the situation. Orestes returns to Argos with his tutor and discovers the town still guilt ridden over the murder of his father. The town is preparing for its yearly ritual of penance. Orestes watches Electra vent her long standing hostility toward Aegistheus and Clytemnestra, and he begins his own debate with Zeus. Orestes is at this point an intellectual observer--detached, ironic, rational...
...bureau men borrowed a DC-6, filled its No. 3 fuel tank with water dyed bright red and coated its belly with a material that will absorb dye. Taking it into the air, they pumped more water into the No. 3 tank, forcing it to overflow through a vent. When they landed, they found that the wind had whipped the overflowing water to the belly and dyed it red. Included in the reddened area was the air intake of the cabin heating system. Conclusion: gasoline sucked into the heater had started the fires...
Fricker now spends his time thinking up exotic German dishes for his Stillman patients. Dumb waiters in the Holyoke Center now carry such delicacies as Rahm schnitzel, Beef Stroganoff, Wlenerschnitzel, vol au vent and falsan aux asperges to hungry patients. Fricker also cooks for Holyoke's tenth floor dining rooms...