Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only 15 minutes before the anonymous call, a ten-stick dynamite bomb warped doors at the Jacksonville Jewish community center; some 15 minutes after the call, a nearly identical bomb smashed windows at the all-Negro James Weldon Johnson High School. Next day brought word from Birmingham, Ala., 370 miles to the northwest, that a mighty 54-stick bomb had been found attached to a damped-out fuse in the window well of a downtown synagogue. These three brought to 45 the South's bomb count since January 1957. Most of the attacks have been against Negroes...
...hours later, about 800 Air Forcemen and their families crowded into the Dyess base theater. Lieut. James Edward Obenauf, 23, one eye bandaged and the other kept closed against the bright lights, stepped out on the platform with his wife. He had performed far above and beyond the call of duty. And General Tom Power, boss of the Strategic Air Command, pinned a medal on Obie's chest. It was the Distinguished Flying Cross...
Romantic Movement. By missing Vice Admiral Ruben Piedrahita, the fifth man in the junta, the rebels made the fatal mistake in their comedy-of-errors revolt. A little after 3 a.m., Piedrahita got a phone call from Public Works Minister Roberto Salazar, a neighbor of kidnaped General Fonseca. "There's a plot against the government," gasped Salazar. "They've taken the generals and are coming for you. You must be dressed when I come by your house." Piedrahita scrambled into his uniform and climbed down the fire escape of his apartment building as Salazar drove...
...doctors' bills are out of control. Compared to the other costs, he argued last week in Medical Economics, medical expenses have actually dropped. Back in 1936, as Dr. King figures it, an electrician had to work 2½ hours to pay for a physician's daytime house call. In 1956 it took him only 1½ hours. To pay for an appendectomy in 1936, a plumber had to work 73½ hours v. a mere 44 in 1956. But the general practitioner who needed 1.28 house calls in 1936 to buy his wife a new pair of shoes...
Archibald Lee Moore, light-heavyweight champion of the world, kept the transcontinental call properly terse. "You wanna fight Willi Besmanoff in Louisville the night before the Derby?" asked Archie's manager in New York. "How much?" asked Archie in San Diego. "Ten thousand." Said Archie: "I'll be there...