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...scene was like an eerie science fiction movie. At midnight in Nagoya, Japan, the new plant of the Yamazaki Machinery Works was deserted. The cavernous, corrugated-metal building was shrouded in darkness. The only worker in the plant was a night watchman, who patrolled the factory with a flashlight. Nonetheless, the Yamazaki Machinery Works was running at full speed, rilling the night with screeches and clangs as eight-ton metal castings were milled and moved throughout the plant, untouched by human hands...
BONUS QUESTION: Joe Early was Bill Veeck's night watchman in Cleveland. Veeck threw a "Good Old Joe Early Night" for his employee after he complained that only ballplayers who didn't need gifts were lavished with them on special days and nights...
...newsroom of the Washington Post a few hours after the police found a strange collection of characters at the Watergate. (Actually, Watergate was a regular soap opera of the fortuitous: if one of the burglars had not stupidly left tape over the latch of a rear door, the night watchman might never have discovered the caper and Congress might never have investigated and the White House tape system might never have been revealed and Richard Nixon might never have resigned.) Luck was the invisible hand that prompted Skylab to scatter its debris over Western Australia, not rush-hour Manhattan. Even...
...Management Agency, can suggest guidelines but cannot enforce them. As a result, fire codes vary greatly from place to place. In New York City, for example, hotels are required to have a system of water pumps and hoses, sprinklers on floors below ground level, an alarm system and a watchman on duty 24 hours a day. Even though many New York hotels were built before World War II and thus have thick walls, windows that open and other safety features, Assistant Fire Chief John Fogarty is worried. "We have at least one hotel fire a day," he says...
...similarly too-late consideration of improved safety measures occurred last spring when the Business School hired an additional 24-hour security guard to patrol its campus, following the rape of two Business school students. At the river, each House already has its own watchman. The University should not wait for yet another tragic incident before it decides to form yet another committee to debate whether the Quad needs more than one guard...