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Keys, not documents, weigh down our correspondent in Rome, where burglars now flourish. He has to carry about 30 of them: keys to the door of his house, the pantry, dispensary, clothes closet, private desk, passenger elevator; to the door of his office building, his office door, the third intermediate door ; to his typewriter, office desk, locker. Cigarets have to be kept in doubly-locked separate chests, and the jeep has to be locked six ways from breakfast, involving keys to the steering wheel, ignition, hood, spare tire, gas tank and tool locker...
...would probably be planned to quarter almost three times as many students as any of the present undergraduate Houses, the Provost said that a much more modest scale of living would be offered the graduate student. One-room units will be standard, with enough room for bed, armchair, desk, closet, and a washbowl in each. Common showering and toilet facilities are envisaged for the projected structure...
...daily, cleans his room by sprinkling disinfectant and wielding a broom in wide circles. Once a day his wife, who lives in a hotel some 15 minutes distant, visits him, bringing his washing and mending. Pétain carefully folds his own shirts and stores them away in a closet. The rest of the time he spends studying English, reading or strolling, carefully guarded, in the courtyard. Occasionally he is permitted a visit from his attorney, Jacques Isorni...
...exterior of the one-time hospital wards. The cavernous buildings have been segmented crosswise into five or six sections apiece, each unit varying from one to three bedrooms--the number of bedrooms determining the cost. Each home has, besides, a living room, a kitchen a bathroom, plenty of closet space, and two radiators in every room. Until you figure that the rooms are, on the average, somewhat smaller than the college single bedroom, and that the radiators are easily twice the size of the ordinary bedroom variety, the more fact of two radiators doesn't sound at all frightening...
...August they came back, went about their business as if nothing had happened. Late one night last week they prepared for an important conference in a blue-walled, chintz-curtained Hollywood apartment. Benny slipped a cocked Mauser under the bedsheets and hid a .32 in the closet. Levinson laid down a Gladstone bag containing two sawed-off shotguns. As it turned out, these arrangements proved sadly inadequate...