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...colonel scribbled notes on the traffic below. The crew chief began a letter to his wife: "Ma chère petite." Above us, Privateer bombers also kept vigil, waiting like Luciole's flares for a Communist attack. The French keep bombers and at least one flare plane in relays over Dienbienphu every night...
Without neglecting their vigil, most of the night watchmen find-time for personal relaxation while they sit in their offices, their ears attuned for phone calls and sounds of misbehavior. Many of them snatch glances at their favorite magazines, when no one is looking. Dugald Livingston of the Chemistry Laboratories, however, is an individualist. Any burglar second-storying his way into Mallinokrodt on the nights when Livingstond is on duty would be greeted with the errie sound of clarinet figures echoling up and down the shadowed stairways...
...this month Dick and Rita barricaded themselves in a Manhattan ho tel suite, while outside two deputy sheriffs waited to serve Dick with an alimony arrears warrant sworn out by his second wife, Cinemactress Joanne Dru. Last week in Greenwich, Conn., more sheriff's men, took up a vigil in the 14-room furnished mansion Haymes had rented. This time, Rita and groom were charged by their landlord with being $675 behind on the rent, plus a $4.000 mauling of the house's antique furniture...
Prosecutor Vigil was turned down on two requests. Washington refused to let the FBI interrogate jury panel members about a case they might be called on to decide, suggesting that the judge do it. and when Vigil called for financial backgrounds of jury panel members, the Department of Justice refused to get the information together, holding that the financial condition of jurors is not the key to susceptibility to bribery...
...Justice Department did plead guilty to Fritchey's other charge, that it had fired Vigil. It said that Vigil originally agreed to turn his office over to his Republican successor (as 67 other holdover U.S. attorneys have done) but changed his mind after he had won the Smaldone case and refused to resign. Then Washington fired...