Word: doorman
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Since posing as a deliveryman is a favorite trick of burglars, many luxury apartment houses require the doorman to accept all packages. After a number of sanguinary holdups, one fatal, bus drivers have no access to cash (passengers must use tokens or take scrip in change). Some athletic events in public high schools have been canceled or played unannounced because crowds have gone on the rampage at earlier games. "A lot of us-and I was one-kept saying that it couldn't happen here," says Mrs. Tom Wicker, wife of the New York Times columnist...
...more than once a year. But the poor Brazilian is kept away from places of entertainment by his color and his clothes; he wouldn't know how to act, and he doesn't have the money anyway. Carnaval is the only time of the year when the doorman or the janitor who has worked for the rich man all year long can dress up in the rich man's clothing and feel that the two of them have something in common...
...woman with a sick six-month-old baby is turned away from a private hospital in Houston because her husband does not have $50 for a deposit. The baby dies on the way across town to an other hospital. A New York doorman suffers a heart attack while on duty; he is refused emergency treatment at a hospital across the street because it lacks cardiac emergency equipment, and he must risk death attempting to reach another hospital...
...first comes the doorman, a 300-lb. bearded ex-bouncer who checks membership cards. Next there is a one-story trip up in a leather-padded freight elevator; then out into the enormous main Factory loft, with its 30-ft.-high steel-trussed ceiling, 54-ft.-long bar, sea of dining tables and minuscule dance floor. Out back is another barroom, with four pool tables (the one covered in red felt is for ladies), barber chairs and church pews for the onlookers and oldtime coin machines to play while waiting. The men's-room graffiti are considered so choice...
...Assembly President broke a gavel in 1960 trying to silence Nikita Khrushchev, is chairman of Esso Ireland. Though names help, such executives are less and less anxious to be figureheads. "If they want a yes-man," says Managing Director Gian-Carlo Salva of Honeywell Italy, "they can get my doorman for $100 a month...