Word: watchmen
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...While there is not anything unusual about the long quiet corridors in the hours when undergraduate are considered to be asleep, the surroundings are always potentially explosive. Sometimes there are complications in the nature of the buildings itself, or sometimes in the people who room there, but night watchmen say that the problems come up, whatever the location...
...middle-aged and middle class. Their uncalloused hands were unsuited for the road building, foresting and citrus picking that growing Israel demanded of its immigrants. Wrote one unhappy Rumanian to the Jerusalem Post: "Former industrialists, merchants and intellectuals think themselves lucky now if they can get jobs as night watchmen." They longed for their children, but these the Reds had kept behind in Rumania. They hoped for comfort in the promised land, but found their spirits broken in lonely months in one-roomed tin huts and canvas shacks...
...York handled 22% of all the tonnage shipped to & from the U.S. Today tonnage has slumped to 15%. Principal reason: the New York waterfront is the realm of hoods and racketeers, where a payoff is as casual as a Christmas card, where whole truckloads of merchandise can vanish, where watchmen never make an arrest, and where mobsters recruit musclemen who are still serving time in Sing Sing...
Crowding into their cluttered single room are (left to right) Charlan Edmundson '56, Barbara Lamb '56, and Dorothy H. Martin '56. Their room, which formerly housed head resident Mrs. Katherine Fernstrom, still contains a burglar alarm and signal for the night watchmen...
...mute, when freedom of expression went underground in the universities, and radio-TV stations and the lights of Broadway and Hollywood were extinguished; and when roving mobs of Legionnaires cast into the overflowing dungeons any government employee or plain citizen heard expressing "an unpopular opinion." So our most reliable watchmen -from Justice William O. Douglas up and down-believed and reported week after week in the news columns, special "surveys," and Sunday magazine section of the authoritative New York Times, and so their opposite numbers in Europe read and believed, and were not surprised. To hear that fascism...