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...Author Greene sees it, he is just the kind of man the British Secret Service needs in Havana. The proposition is first put to him in the men's washroom at Sloppy Joe's bar. A worldly friend advises him to take the money and send in false reports. Wormold, who feels he could never be a real secret agent, accepts the advice: he hires imaginary agents, composes false reports, even sends in drawings of vacuum-cleaner parts as diagrams of a devilish weapon being developed in a rebel province of Cuba...
...brought in to cool the pool, and enough pent-up steam was allowed to escape into the London air to sweat out a whole year's hangovers. The cavernous chambers were abustle with well-stacked nautch girls, brushing bare bellies with Indian waiters serving cha-patties. The only washroom was carefully labeled "Co-educational-On Your Honor Please!" Behind the bar a lily-twined manneken-pis arched a thoughtful stream at a stone death's head that looked like many a guest would feel on the morning after. There were two dozen freshly made beds spotted strategically...
...were finished off in rich materials. Siding the plaza are thick strips of green marble; inside, the elevator lobbies have travertine walls and terrazzo floors. In the Seagram offices most walls are covered with vinyl plastic, the executive suites with panels of English oak, the couch in the executive washroom with white plastic. Cracked Architecture Critic Henry Russell Hitchcock: "I've never seen more of less...
House Broken. In Detroit, police said that Freddie Washington smashed a rear window in trying to rob a bar, found himself locked in the washroom, climbed out and ran home for a chisel, screwdriver and knife, went back in the same window, broke into the bar, returned to the washroom, where he was still hiding when police arrived...
...accepted an honorary doctor of laws degree from George Washington University, visited Washington's new mosque, Bashir Ahmad, flew down to colonial Williamsburg in Virginia. At the restored Governor's Palace, a guide told the King that "as elegant as the place is, there were limited washroom facilities [in colonial times]." Confessed the King wryly: "We have the same trouble...