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...given any appointee at his level after three years of service, was revoked because of "a computer error." He says that his mail is being opened. One letter even bore the initials and stamp of the "action officer" who had opened it. He still toils quietly in the same windowless, fifth-floor office. Instead of monitoring the costs of the multibillion-dollar C-5A and F-lll, he now spends his time evaluating relatively minor projects. His first assignment was to review construction of a bowling alley in Thailand. His finding: a $100,000 overrun...
...Arts is silent. Girls in white pinafores stare from the spacious brown canvas by John Singer Sargent across an empty room to the portraits on the opposite wall. A single spectator feels like an intruder, as he passes between a Renoir and a Manet, conversing peacefully in a cool windowless room...
EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). An original surrealistic comedy by Jim Henson and Jerry Juhl, "The Cube" deals with the complex problems of reality v. illusion. Dick Schaal plays captive host to various characters who visit him in his doorless and windowless chamber...
...Battle. To the complicated, often oblique strategy of the defense-much of it in the privacy of the judge's chambers-yet another twist was added. With his client safely locked away in his windowless, heavily guarded cell on the 13th floor, Attorney Cooper himself was facing a grand-jury investigation at the federal courthouse across the street. While representing a client in a sensational card-cheating trial, Cooper illegally "obtained a secret federal grand-jury transcript. Admitting that he had lied in court about how he got the transcript, Cooper refused to divulge his source on the ground...
...great deal of sympathy for a tale of a Harvard rejection I managed an invitation to luncheon at a Secret Society--like a Harvard Final Club but even crustier and more archaic. The Secret Societies are so secret that visitors are not even permitted inside the huge, windowless stone "tombs" that house them, and we had our lunch on the fourth floor of a nearby University administration building...