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Richardson, whose duties as a night watchman take him from Adams to Winthrop to Lowell Houses on various nights of the week, was coming off a different career at that time. It was only natural, he reflects, for a 23-year Army man who had seen action in World war II, Korea and Vietnam to feel some resentment upon seeing Viet Cong flags waved around at Commencement...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: As Different as Night And Day | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

...swing watchman"--alternating between Houses--is also to his liking. A hearty laugh overpowers the WEEL "easy listening" wafting from a radio behind him: "You screw up one week and by the time you get back there they've forgotten all about...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: As Different as Night And Day | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

...another. Suddenly I see that the whole hallway is a swelling mess of howling, leaping, nadly salivating dogs. All of them seem to be at least three feet tall at the shoulder and as fat as toads. a bored and sleepy youg man, who appears to be the night watchman, materializes at the door, regards me abstractly for a moment and opens the door a crack. Immediately, two or three dogs squeeze by me and careen off into the night. The watchman slams the door shut as soon as I edge in, assuring me that I will not be dovoured...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Barkers | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

...fate. With a little help from his makeup man, Comic Winters ripens into a big jack-o'-lantern on the set of Walt Disney's special, The Halloween Hall o' Fame. The show, scheduled to air Oct. 30 on NBC, stars Winters as a bumbling night watchman who swaps heads with a talking pumpkin. The tricks and treats are vintage Disney, and Winters loved it all-especially his costume. "I was secure with my head," he says. "I knew I was a pumpkin mentally. There's a lot of seeds up there-some gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 3, 1977 | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

...documents to the Soviet Union (TIME, Jan. 3). Moore was apprehended last December after tossing a fat manila envelope into the parking lot of the Soviet embassy's residence in northwest Washington. Thinking that the packet might be a letter bomb planted by anti-Soviet activists, an embassy watchman called in U.S. officials. Moore was later caught by FBI agents, who lured him into a trap baited with a fake payoff package ostensibly from the Soviets. Moore's attorney said his client may change his plea to innocent by reason of insanity, and produced a psychiatrist who told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: Stealing the Company Store | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

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