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...floss into a rope that they fashioned into a ladder with stirrups made of fabric threaded through cardboard salt and pepper shakers. Using hacksaw blades smuggled into the prison in the soles of bathing slippers, the trio managed to saw through two of three Plexiglas panels in a window of their dorm cellblock...
...Last week Arthur Harris Stier, 33; Ian James Holbs, 32; and David Gregory Surasky, 37, pleaded guilty to attempted escape. "It was ingenious," marvels Assistant U.S. Attorney Gerald Carruth. "That dental floss is strong. When it's braided, it's like nylon. If they had made it through the window and up the ladder, only a mesh screen stood between them and escape...
...Dutch name Peter the Great gave the city when he founded it in 1703 on a swamp on the shore of the Gulf of Finland. Choosing a European version of his patron saint's name to underscore his cosmopolitan ambitions, Peter built the elegant port as a window to the West, intending to yank his fusty country toward the future. When the Russians went to war against Germany in 1914, the city's Teutonic appellation suddenly became politically incorrect. Emperor Nicholas II's solution was to Russify the name, making it Petrograd. So it remained until 1924, when Lenin died...
...officials, Caramandi recalls today, were upset because a Laborers Union local was monopolizing certain work at Philadelphia's Civic Center. The Mob warned the Laborers to back off, and they did. "If they don't listen, you might have to whack ((execute)) them, maybe throw someone out a window," explains Caramandi, who has since entered the Federal Witness Protection Program...
...loss to explain. His youth, Tsongas remembers, was mostly not a happy one. He never knew his mother, who suffered from tuberculosis and lived in a sanatorium. One day young Paul, age 4, was driven to see her. A ghostly figure, Katina Tsongas, gazed down from an upstairs window and waved to her son. He never saw her again. She died when Paul and his twin sister, Thaleia, were seven. A grandmother, whom the children soon called Ma, took her place...