Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prison ward of a local hospital. He passed out caviar to his nurses, champagne to his guards, and threw an elaborately catered foie gras party for the whole hospital staff. Then, one night, he staged an equally elaborate escape: after sawing through the bars of his window (to throw police off the track), Aunay put on a fresh suit and walked out the door. Ex plained a hospital guard: "We never locked Monsieur Aunay's door. He suffered from claustrophobia...
Judge Kapp would have none of it. "I believe you were an active participant to burn Newark," he told the unrepentant author, and then cited a poem published in last December's Evergreen Review in which Jones exhorted Negroes to "smash the window at night (these are magic actions) .. . Just take what you want. Take their lives if need be, but get what you want." "You are sick," lectured the judge. "Not as sick as you," shot back Jones before leaving for Trenton state prison...
...American viewpoint, the current system unfairly penalizes the U.S. because it has run up deficits doing things that benefit the world, such as spending for foreign aid and tourism, lending and investing in capital-short areas. Thus, any new system has to provide a liberal and flexible credit window for tiding over countries with justifiable deficits. Most important, the system has to be one that eases the world shortage of monetary reserves and makes nations less dependent on the vagaries of gold. The world needs a system that, in President Johnson's words, "will make the creation...
...Cambridge firemen tried to save some of Swamy's handwritten notes by rushing into the burning building and throwing them out the window. But they are still lost in the snow, and Swamy said the ink has probably been washed away...
Negroes' reaction to the convention is at this point far from certain. Chicago could be in for a massive explosion. There is, in at least one store window less than a mile from the convention hall, a dusty sign reading "Soul Brother," left over from a previous flare-up. Even the chill of winter has not been enough to discourage Negro youths from a recent rampage through a South Side neighborhood...