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After that night of terror, Mrs. Walker, a magazine editor, began carrying a .45-cal. pistol. She and her husband put new locks on their windows and set up lights around the yard. When alone, she slept with all the lights in the apartment turned on. A few weeks after the attack, she returned from a brief vacation to find a makeshift ladder at one of their apartment windows and the screens ripped. But the prowler, whom Mrs. Walker assumes was the rapist bent on another attack, was heard by a friend of the Walkers' and fled as police arrived...
...football jersey torn at the letters to every class enabling him to examine his bellybutton at leisure. There was Greek the gambler: Captain kirk the pinball wizard: and his roommate Studly the womanizer. There was the Mad Typist who lived down the hall from my dingy basement cell never slept and ingested a dozen No-Doz daily and Howard Machine the visiting professor from Britain who never really caught on to his students' indifference and absence...
...wake the Laotian refugee family that had been staying in the basement while waiting for permanent lodging. Suddenly Cha Mang, one of the refugees, appeared and beckoned the clergyman to follow her to the room where the family, which had arrived in the U.S. just five days earlier, slept. There she pointed to the bed where her husband Lue Thao, 36, was lying. Lue Thao was not asleep; he was dead...
...prison in Tehran in late June, Metrinko cursed his guards in Farsi as "thieves" and "liars" for taking away his watch and glasses, and denounced Khomeini as a "killer." The militants blindfolded Metrinko, punched and slapped him, and put him in an isolation cell. For two weeks he slept on its bare floor with no heat or light, except for what little came over the transom of the steel door...
...three-piece suit and tie. In a phone call to his mother, Mrs. Hazel Albin of North Little Rock, Ark., he said that he had been wearing the suit when captured and had been given no other clothing during his detention except another pair of pants. He had once slept in the suit for 45 straight nights, and had not been allowed to take a bath for three months. The reason, he assumed, was that he had been "belligerent and uncooperative." He explained: "I had a shouting match with the guards about every day." Had he been punished otherwise? Said...