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Rififi (UMPO) contains a 30-minute stretch of wordless moviemaking that is one of the most engrossing sequences since the invention of talking pictures. A band of four international thieves plans the burglary of a Parisian jewelry store. They carefully case the shop, study the routine of the night watchman and other inhabitants of the block, buy an identical burglary alarm and painstakingly devise the best means of silencing...
...Russians themselves were less reticent but only slightly more informative. "A watchman on our ship saw the frogman come to the surface in Portsmouth harbor," said an assistant naval attachè at the Soviet embassy, but "we were in a British port and there was nothing we could do." It was nevertheless true that soon after anchoring, the Ordzhffuikidze had taken the precaution of putting a crew of its own frogmen over the side...
...storm only sprung a couple of doors, but caused no major damage," according to the night watchman for the Department of Buildings and Grounds...
...rebellion had started in earnest. That night, the watchman protecting the college property was attacked. For the next four days, there were daily disturbances. Then on May 26, Quincy warned the freshman and sophomore classes that "legal process, civil or criminal," might be taken to punish or prevent "such outrages as had been committed on College property." That night there was more rioting...
Rowell and Van Rennes believe that this basic principle of "exercising" the monitor to prove that it is still alert can be applied to anything from airplane controls to chemical factories. It will not keep them from failing, but it should make them "fail safe," even when the electronic watchman has died...