Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vision" to kill Teamster Hoffa. He fired several shots at Hoffa with a BB pistol, pinked Jimmy's hide with a few pellets. Tough little Jimmy went fiercely after his assailant, planted a dandy right on his jaw; a Hoffa crony then kicked the would-be assassin. The man required 14 stitches in his scalp, was taken away to jail. Taking this incident as evidence of "hostility" against their client, Hoffa's hopeful lawyers swiftly moved for a mistrial. But it would probably take more than BB shot to derail the case against Jim Hoffa...
...week, as the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology celebrated :he centennial of its founding as the Army Medical Museum, tourists still admired an Sickles' leg. They could also gape at a lock of Lincoln's hair, a bone sliver from his skull, and bullet-shattered vertebrae from Assassin John Wilkes Booth and President James A. Garfield. But pathology, the study of disease processes, has far outgrown the two rear rooms above the Riggs Bank that first housed the Army Medical Museum. The institute, which is a combined effort of all three armed forces, now serves a score...
They called him "the baby-faced assassin" at Harvard, where he was an All-America guard in 1941. Old grads claim they can still hear echoes of the thunderous tackle he made on Navy's William ("Barnacle Bill") Busik. As a lieutenant on the submarine Tirante during World War II, he won the Silver Star for leading raiding parties aboard Japanese craft and engaging in hand-to-hand combat. Yet for all such exploits-and despite his heritage as a member of one of Massachusetts' most celebrated Yankee families-Endicott ("Chub") Peabody, 42, until last week...
Alam was one of Iran's first big landowners to distribute his holdings to the peasants, even now insists that his servants eat the same food as his family. Once, when a would-be assassin was nabbed outside his door, Alam gave the man $40, then had him thrashed and sent into the street without his pants. In 1953, Alam helped organize the counterrevolution that overthrew Mohammed Mossadegh. Before taking over last week as the Shah's chief minister, Alam was the director of the Pahlevi Foundation, a charitable trust worth at least $133 million...
...hobby of collecting likenesses of President Abraham Lincoln grew into a unique historical archive (more than 200,000 pictures of Civil War personalities), the source for the busts of the 16th President on the $5 bill and the copper 1 ?piece, who also turned up a rare photo of Assassin John Wilkes Booth attentively listening in the audience at Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address; in Manhattan...