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...Communist plan disillusioning. She is persuaded by an anarchist to take more direct action and stages a sit-in at the magazine office which misrepresented her husband. Her two fellow anarchists are anxious for dinner, however, and leave Mother K. sitting alone on the floor. Finally, the night watchman asks her to leave so he can lock-up. He invites her home for a dinner of "Heaven and Earth" (German sausages and apple dumplings) and she leaves with him. He has told her exactly what she wanted to hear all along. He "knew those magazine stories were all lies right...
...seven-story residence in northwest Washington. The packet was addressed FOR THE RESIDENT-EYES ONLY, meaning, in spook jargon, that it was intended for the KGB spymaster who lived in the apartment building. Suspecting that it was a letter bomb planted by anti-Soviet Jewish activists, a Soviet watchman summoned U.S. officials, who in turn called in U.S. Army demolition experts...
...feisty faculty gives her a grace period. Said one teacher: "She had areas of what one would call, in a pinch, charm." But Parker becomes impatient with endless faculty meetings, such as five sessions to discuss whether or not to install a toilet in the watchman's booth. At Harvard, they typed her as basically hostile, "a female Mencken." Her Cambridge curt speaking manner bugs the Bennington artsies; her demeanor comes across as aloof, cynical and supercilious. She says she wants to be "queen of the hop on a larger scale...
Bank officials were aghast, as well they might be. The managing director, Jacques Guenet, had been so convinced of his vault's impregnability that he had failed to install any kind of electronic alarm system. To save on wages, he had even sent the night watchman home on weekends. Guenet's wealthy depositors were displeased, to put it mildly. On the day following the discovery, angry crowds clogged the streets in front of the Société Générale...
...possibility. "There was a lot of crying and calling for Mama," Ray recalled afterward. Desperate, Ray and the seven boys piled up mattresses and, with great effort, pushed away the steel plates. Sixteen hours after first entering the pit, they squeezed out. Two hundred yards away they found the watchman, who alerted the police...