Robert Maxwell Jones Jr., 26, stood quietly in the rear of the elevator one morning last week as it went up to the 45th floor of Cincinnati's 48-story Carew Tower. The elevator operator noticed nothing about Jones except that he was the only Negro in the car, that he was hatless and wore a tan gabardine topcoat. Jones got off on 45, walked up the winding stairway to the observation tower atop the building. The tower door was locked, but he found a window just above the 47th floor and jimmied it open. He...
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