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...wife Matilda, two of their children and the family dog were upstairs in the executive mansion in Albany last week when a neighbor, Julian Quarles, 25, paid them an unexpected visit. Sometime between midnight and 7 a.m., Quarles climbed a 7-ft.-high fence outside the house, broke a window to unlock the front door, and walked in, unnoticed by the two guards stationed outside. He took a video recorder, a silver punch bowl, two candlesticks, a tray, a coffee urn and two platters...
Stephen DiGiovanni, a spokesman for his father's firm, says that he can not see what the Coop has to complain about. "If anything, it's brought more people to the Coop's display window. My question to the Coop is how that disrupts their business," he says...
...with up to 40% of its entire foreign-exchange earnings. Even those practical considerations, however, could be swept aside during a leftist backlash. In that event, noted a veteran China hand in the British Foreign Office, "the rational argument of the need for hard currency would go out the window. Zealots don't care about logic...
...shown. Yet the violence is frequently underplayed to good effect. In one scene, the couple's three children huddle together on a bed and listen impassively to the screams and blows coming from the other room. When the front door slams, they troop in unison to the window to watch the fight continue outside. A dozen graphic scenes could not tell us more about the numbing familiarity of this domestic reign of terror...
Stoddard compared the roof reconstruction to Widener's window repairs; neither is an emergency but both are due. He added that this is the first time that the library, built in 1942, has been repaired...