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...game. Five times in two years either Britain or the U.S. had hurried to his bedside with offers to settle the dispute over Iran's nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s billion-dollar properties. Five times he said no. Each time he left the door ajar and each time his callers returned bearing still more tempting offers. For the longer he waited in his bed, the weaker Mossadegh seemed, and the more anxious the West grew to prop him up against the Communists...
...recording machine at Mossadegh's bedside took down his answer to Offer No. 6 so that it might be rebroadcast to the nation. It was no, no, a thousand times no. Then Mossadegh settled back in his bed, and the door was again left ever so slightly ajar...
...door swings softly ajar meanwhile...
Harlan's miners and mountaineers were astounded, and Circuit Court Judge Astor Hogg just had time to get his jaws ajar and allow it was "the beginning of a new era" when the Beach boys, who dabble in bootlegging, drove into downtown Harlan, the county seat, and fired six bullets into 45-year-old Avery Hensley, a former cop. In the words of Kentucky's standard indictment form, Avery Hensley "did then & there die." Six hours later, Avery's stepson Joe Hensley was sitting in a parked car outside the bus terminal when two Harlan policemen...
...Great Falls in 1945; Navy Cross; Korean War, 1950; author of "All the Ships at Sea," a naval autobiography, and "The Last Cruise." When he is not attending classes or telling sea stories to other Niemans, Lederer can be found in Lowell D-21, where he leaves the door ajar. There he writes his "mag articles" and talks to anyone who will listen...