Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the tail section that the only survivors came. "They came out from the fog and the trees," reported a farmer's wife, Mrs. Margaret Bailey, who heard the crash and drove to the scene. "One of them said, T am the Turkish Prime Minister. Quickly get help. There are others trapped...
Turkey's 59-year-old Premier Adnan Menderes was flying into London from Istanbul with a planeload of Turkish officials, Members of Parliament and newsmen for final talks on a Cyprus settlement. His secretary had pulled him through a hole in the wreckage. Margaret Bailey, a former nurse, drove them through the woods to her 14th century farm cottage, wrapped them in hot blankets, served them tea and some of her precious 1868 brandy...
Suffering from shock and bruised ribs, the Premier was moved from Mrs. Bailey's cottage to a private room on the third floor of London Clinic. It was there that Adnan Menderes, in pajamas and dressing gown, received British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Greek Premier Constantine Karamanlis three days after the crash. Somebody brought them one of the hospital's fountain pens. And in that most undiplomatic of settings, the three men signed the agreement that ended the four-year dispute over Cyprus and brought the island the promise of independence for the first time since...
Freshman Ed Bailey set a Yardling record and a possible national freshman standard in the weight throw with a 55 ft., 1 1/2 in. toss...
Arrested, Hume survived three juries at the Old Bailey-the first was dismissed when the judge fell ill, the second could not agree, the third found him not guilty. Finally, for the crime of illegally disposing of Setty's body, Hume pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact to murder, and in 1950 was sentenced to twelve years in prison...