Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sound of an approaching outboard, saw a white Boston Whaler being beached on a neighbor's lawn and, because of a recent rash of burglaries, phoned the police. Because the FBI had not bothered to notify the police of the ransom dropoff, two officers responded to the call. They spotted what appeared to be two men, one carrying a duffle bag, the other a suitcase and a carbine. At the appearance of the police, the two dropped everything and escaped. The duffle bag contained scuba diving gear. In the suitcase was Mackle...
...Nessie," as local inhabitants call the monster, has been on the scene ever since. According to legend, it has killed one man and has been seen swimming on the surface, sunbathing on land and even crossing a nearby highway. Footprints on the muddy banks were later found to have been made by a hoaxer using a stuffed hippopotamus foot...
Before flying off to visit troops in Viet Nam, Evangelist Billy Graham paid a call at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for a few words with former President Dwight Eisenhower. As Graham recalls it, Ike had a message for the G.I.s, delivered with tears streaming down his cheeks: "You're going to Viet Nam. Tell those doughboys that here at Walter Reed is an old soldier pulling for them and praying for them." Said Graham: "I was touched. I had never seen him cry before...
...wrote Clark, a man's convictions must be "sincere and meaningful" and "occupy a place in the life of its possessor parallel to that filled by the orthodox belief in God." Seeger, who had voiced "skepticism about the existence of God," did not go so far as to call himself an atheist. Clark pointed this out, concluding that "the question is not, therefore, one between theistic and atheistic beliefs. We do not deal with or intimate any decision on that situation in this case...
...Hoffmann made a number of additional points at great length: the creation of SFAC to expedite dialogue; the "new procedure on recruitment"; the willingness of the faculty to consider carefully the merits of open meetings. He attempts to present Harvard administration policy in terms of Marcuse's "repressive tolerance": call the demonstration "the most serious since I've been here" (Dean Ford), threaten unlimited punishment, and then sneer at the number of people who stayed. And finally, he attempts to pin our action on Hilary Putnam. That's pretty foul for a kindly uncle. Hutch Jenness...