Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, the overwhelming evidence seemed to be against the "17 calls" theory. Operators do not normally ask for the telephone number from which a credit-card call is made, and thus there would be no record of their origin. It is unclear what records, if any, the Union Leader has to support its story. There was no telephone at the Chappaquiddick cottage itself; the phone mentioned by the Union Leader was in a locked studio behind the cottage, and the owners reported no indication that anyone had broken in to use the phone. If Kennedy had later made the twelve...
...million cut in the Pentagon's "emergency fund," an amendment that was opposed by California Conservative George Murphy, who called it "comfortable money" for the military. Answered Maryland Democrat Joseph Tydings: "I would call it luxury money...
...that prosecution is easy under the best of circumstances. The gangsters' well-paid legal corps takes full advantage of the Bill of Rights. The Mob's muscle often takes care of potential witnesses. It takes a brave citizen to call the police. Also, most of the evidence gathered by the FBI, until recently, was not admissible in court...
Nonetheless, it became clear that the Royal Ulster Constabulary, which numbers only 3,000 men, was incapable of restoring order. The hasty call-up of 11,000 police auxiliaries only worsened matters; Catholics consider them little more than armed Protestants. Finally Chichester-Clark had an urgent telephone conversation with British Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Breaking off a vacation at his Scilly Islands retreat, Wilson helicoptered to a Royal Navy base in Cornwall for a three-hour conference with Home Secretary James Callaghan, who holds responsibility for Ulster...
...Bureau. As recently as ten years ago, this room could have passed for Act I, Scene 1 of The Front Page. As in the play, the focus of activity was a raucous poker game among reporters, policemen, bail bondsmen and ambulance-chasing lawyers. Somehow, in the din of police calls crackling over squawk boxes and the clanging of the fire alarm, a reporter would hear a call of a homicide and shout out the address. Whichever newsman had failed to fill his flush would then check the "crisscross," a directory listing telephone numbers by address...