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...southeast, summoned provincial governors, army commanders and police officers to a meeting to chart plans for trapping Kocero. At the moment the meeting was being held, the bandit was nonchalantly holding up eleven autos and buses a scant eight miles away. The laughingstock of Turkey, Kurutluoglu resigned soon afterward...
...Hyde Park Gate. Thus, when his 23-year-old journalist grandson and namesake married Minnie d'Erlanger, 24, in a London registry office last week (he is an Anglican, she a Roman Catholic), Sir Winston sent Lady Clem to the ceremony alone. But the bridal party dropped round afterward to raise a toast with the grand old man, whom they found in the company of his plump cat, Jock...
...second time. The first time was in 1959. Taylor, then Army Chief of Staff and bitter over President Eisenhower's defense policies, quit three years before reaching the normal retirement age of 60. Two years later, John Kennedy brought him back to Washington as his military adviser, afterward named him chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...slammed shells into the breaches, and blasted away pointblank at anything that moved-firing an awesome 322 rounds in an hour. The barrage turned back the enemy, who left 13 dead v. the government's 15 killed. Said a surprised American adviser who arrived shortly afterward: "Somebody threw something into the balance that the Viet Cong had not expected-guts...
...scarcely dry on Kennedy's bill when the city of Birmingham exploded in a tangle of firehoses, snarling police dogs and writhing Negroes. The violence was ugly, and so were the political implications. Soon afterward Kennedy announced that he was sending to Congress a much tougher version of his bill...