Word: antonios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning of July 1, 1949, three men from the Los Angeles County sheriff's office broke into the home of Antonio Rochin, a 22-year-old truck driver whom they suspected of carrying narcotics. Before they could stop him, Rochin swallowed the only evidence against him-two morphine capsules. The deputies choked him and pummeled him, trying unsuccessfully to make him cough them up. Then they dragged him to a hospital, forced him on to an operating table, where a doctor "pumped" out his stomach to get the evidence. The judge gave him 60 days...
Inevitably, there were a few strange twists to the unfolding story. The Pentagon found that the Red list included 20 names of men previously recorded as killed in action. At Ft. MacArthur, Calif., Private Antonio Apodaca, a Korea veteran, found his name on the list. In Atlanta, Mrs. William Sasser gasped incredulously when she heard the name "Pfc. Walter Dixon." That was the name of her first husband, who was reported killed in action last May. At week's end the Defense Department was still checking into the case...
Pushing through the steaming jungle, a Venezuelan army major named Franz Antonio Rísquez Iribarren scrambled to the top of a high cliff in the Parima Mountains and proudly planted his flag at the summit. He measured the cliff's map coordinates and radioed to his superiors: "In the name of Almighty God, glory to the brave people, we have accomplished our mission. An embrace of admiration and gratitude to all . . ." From the same spot, last week the American Geographical Society in New York got word from Dr. José Cruxent, archaeologist for the expedition: "Greetings from...
...from planet to planet as easily and comfortably as a housewife going to the supermarket. The truth about space is different, and no one knows it better than the high-flying sci entists and engineers. Last week the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine held a symposium at San Antonio on the dan gers that will crowd around explorers of the aeropause...
...DAWKINS San Antonio...