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...asleep. Robert, 7, came in to say goodnight. Powell stared silently at Carpenter, nodded at his pistol. Gunman Carpenter put it out of sight until the boy went to his bed. Stella helped make bedsheet bandages, obediently fed the guest bananas and milk as Carpenter sprawled on the couch, a shaky hand on his pistol. "We sat like that for hours," said Powell. "I kept thinking, if only he'd fall asleep I could jump him. I wanted to take him. I wanted to take him real bad. But the kids-I couldn't take a chance they...
...Chicago's Schiller Street, where there was no one to talk to about opera, but only "guns and crazy money," where he found only a day-to-day, dreamless darkness-then a dreary round of petty stickups, a dead cop, the final terror of sitting on a couch, holding an innocent family at bay. Now, despite "the grief I'm causin' Ma," there was no exit. "I wouldn't last four hours if I went out on the street. Those coppers wouldn't give me a chance...
Shortly after he arrived at Huntlands, Johnson complained of indigestion and asked for some baking soda and water. While other guests went swimming, Johnson retired to a couch in an upstairs room. But the pain in his chest grew worse, and a local doctor was called in; he spotted the trouble immediately. An ambulance was called and Johnson was taken to the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda...
...Great Adventure (Sucksdorff; Louis de Rochemont Associates). A pool in the forest waits in stillness at first light. The mists are bodied silences. Suddenly, a bird sings, clears his morning throat and tries again. A dewdrop tumbles from its cobweb couch. Fox cubs yawn and blink in their cozy ground, while overhead the lilies languidly unclench. On the nearest farm the cock insults creation, which unexpectedly replies. A vixen darts among the spluttering hens and carries off her breakfast...
...second Lowell House contribution to the week's wreckage was a fire which started in a couch and which almost took the life of an inhabitant who was strangely reluctant to leave it. Neighbors rescued the victim by smashing a fire-door and then called the engines. Some 50 scholars turned out fully clothed to watch the scene...