Word: auge
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Billy Mitchell and Eddie Rickenbacker and Charles Lindbergh. He died with Wiley Post, a one-eyed fellow Oklahoman who had twice broken the round-the-world speed record. On Aug. 15, 1935, the two were in Alaska on the first leg of a journey to, of all places, Siberia. They crashed taking off in a nose-heavy plane from a small, landlocked waterway known as the Walakpa Lagoon. The bodies were found by Eskimos, and a world went into mourning. Why? Because the years from World War I to the Great Depression were times for tears. Will Rogers often diluted...
...under subpoena. Sirica seemed openly skeptical. The subpoena had asked for the tape of a "meeting of June 20, 1972 in the President's Executive Office Building office involving Richard Nixon, John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman from 10:30 a.m. to noon (time approximate)." Cox amended the subpoena on Aug. 13 to make it unmistakably clear, extending the time covered from 10:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. and noting "Ehrlichman and then Haldeman went to see the President...
Nixons credibility has dropped substantially. In August, of those who had heard or read about his Aug. 15 television speech on Watergate, some 39% thought that he was telling the truth and 14% were not sure. Not surprisingly, in last week's survey, Democrats believed his explanation about the tapes least-some 15%, compared with 46% of the Republicans...
Private Détente. Agnew and Reston were also in touch two months ago. At that time, the columnist played a small but significant role in formulating Agnew's response to the charges swirling around him. On the night of Aug. 6, Reston advised Agnew that his initial short statement claiming innocence of any wrongdoing would not be enough, that the Vice President's supporters would expect him to stand up and fight...
...surveyed a scene of jubilation in the New York Met clubhouse one night last week, Manager Yogi Berra felt it necessary to caution his players about overconfidence. "The ball," he warned, "can take funny bounces." Yogi should know. As recently as Aug. 30, the woebegone Mets were languishing in last place in the National League's East Division and the only question was how soon Berra would be fired. Last week, several funny bounces and one winning streak later, the resuscitated New Yorkers were locked in a do-or-die struggle for first place with the Pittsburgh Pirates...