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...Throughout its 190-year existence, the court's decision-making process has enjoyed a special immunity from public scrutiny. Even during the '70s, in the post-Watergate era of full disclosure, its white marble temple stood as a sanctuary, its inner workings Washington's last well-kept secret...
...good deal later Forman returned home with her two friends puffing breathlessly behind in pursuit. They were both humiliated by their performance but their embarrassment was short-lived. After a good laugh their proctor let them in on a well-kept secret,--they had just finished working out with one of the country's top female half-milers...
Survey teams had inspected the inn in December. David Freeman, director of the state Department of Social Services, said yesterday. "They found nothing to cause concern. The place was clean and well-kept. "It was better than most," he added...
Only one area of town seems almost untouched. The section where the white workers in the copper companies live resembles a pleasant Belgian suburb, with well-kept gardens and roads, European cafes and restaurants. African mine workers, of course, still live in overcrowded one-and two-room shacks. Although the older mines are now nominally owned by Zaire, there are only a handful of Africans in management positions. New mining investments by Japanese and South African firms maintain the same pattern: Never hire an African for an upper-level job when an expatriate can be imported...
Since "strict discretion is absolutely necessary" if terrorists are to blend in with their surroundings, "every comrade must be decorously dressed and be personally well-kept: clean shaven and hair cut." (In fact, several prominent Brigatisti, including imprisoned Leader Renato Curcio, do sport beards.) Terrorists are admonished "as a matter of principle" to be "reassuring and kind to neighbors and not make noise after hours...