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...Midnight Man is neither an exotic spy stalking the romantic capitals of the espionage world nor a menacing psychopath stalking some picturesque Gothic mansion. Rather, he is a weary night watchman, working the lobster shift at a backwater college, who has the misfortune to discover a murdered coed on his rounds. Jim Slade is a onetime top cop who has just done time for killing his cheating wife and has taken this job only because it is the closest thing to police work the parole board will allow. Portrayed by Burt Lancaster -who is turning into an attractive, hard-working...
...received some 1,150 suggestions for Man of the Year, for everyone from Super-horse Secretariat to Watergate Watchman Frank Wills. Judge John Sirica, who headed the list of reader nominations, was also the first choice of the editors. "I plan to keep it," wrote one reader when the Man of the Year cover appeared, "as a reminder for my family and myself that there can be hope in the midst of despair...
...guard, warned to expect "Mr. Ryan," unsuspectingly opens the door. "Ryan" pulls a gun, binds and gags the watchman, and lets in four other gunmen. The band proceeds to the third-floor coin room and rips off 5600 Greek and Roman coins, valued at up to $5 million...
...station at the corner. Special security agents are on call to accompany her when she goes out in the evening. She never uses sleeping pills or earplugs. "I want to be alert," she says. Often at night she gets up and goes to the windows to see that the watchman is on his rounds. On her bed table she keeps the duke's pistol...
...peepholes in the doors of all undergraduate rooms; adding and replacing locks and lighting throughout the University; locking the entryways to several of the River Houses; an experimental electronic security door to Eliot House which can only be opened with a special coded magnetic card; an increased student watchman force; and a campaign to increase student and administration awareness and cooperation in reporting crimes and suspicious happenings...