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...Night watchmen, bands from the Boston Tea Party, show people, folksingers, Irish drunk singers, drunken clubbies who slobber around, even prostitutes...
Captain Frans Banning Cocq's watchmen? Rembrandt's Nightwatch is all we know of them. Napoleon's coronation? Jacques Louis David's massive painting is the permanent report. French firing squads at work in Spain in 1808? Goya's painting, both witness and indictment, has fixed the image for all time. The court of Philip of Spain? On courtesans, and dwarf retainers, Velasquez has the final word. And so it has always been the artist's task to report on the figures and events of his day, whether it be the hanging...
Though the Federal Firearms Act prohibits the mailing of hand guns, except to military officers, policemen, Government watchmen and other authorized persons, mail-order dealers commonly get around this barrier by shipping pistols and revolvers by common carriers and commercial delivery services. No federal law requires the shippers to question the qualifications of the buyer or notify police. Some dealers also offer a variety of heavy, war-surplus antitank guns and bazookas. One youngster with a mail-order bazooka shot several thousand dollars' worth of transformers off utility posts before he was arrested. Four California youths, using...
Well-Educated Watchmen. Such cynicism stems partly from students feeling that their education is put to little use by Communist societies, which tend to reserve the best jobs for party favorites. "They encourage us to study engineering and medicine," complains a young Pole, "and then they expect us to join a farming community and to make less money as a doctor than a common laborer. I didn't study ten years for that." A Czech student complained that university graduates are being "offered jobs as night watchmen-we have the best-educated night watchmen in the world...
...certainly seems that the Summer School has a responsibility to provide an adequate number of night watchmen to protect the girls' safety; presumably this number is adequate at 12:59 when a girl opens the door herself, and should be sufficient two minutes later at 1:01 to give her the freedom of having her own key. If the number was inadequate before 1:00 it would be inadequate after...