Word: chests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Plethora of Puzzles. Some ten hours after Marshall left home on that hot, dusty day, his dead body was found face down beside his truck on his rolling ranch property. There were five bullet holes in his abdomen and chest, four in his back. There was blood on the side of his truck. His .22-caliber bolt-action rifle lay nearby...
...first U.S. ambassador ever to visit the Indian protectorate of Sikkim, Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith decided to dress native. Though most good-sized Sikkimese stand somewhere south of his chest, Galbraith (6 ft. 8 in.) surprisingly found a spotted mandarin coat from a bazaar in the capital, Gangtok, that neatly draped his gangling frame. Looking like an unhappy giraffe in his new outfit, Galbraith attended a dinner given by the Maharaja of Sikkim. Later, the younger members of the ambassador's party twisted until 3 a.m. after getting lessons from the Maharaja's teenage granddaughter, Princess...
...Lyndon Johnson, Connally had a good grasp of Texas politics and a long list of friends. Resigning as Secretary of the Navy, he flew home for an energetic 25,000-mile tour around the state this spring. Along the way, he picked up valuable business support, a fat campaign chest and the backing of most Texas newspapers. The result was 422,000 primary votes-or almost a third of the total...
...only new finding: a grim postscript from the Swedish Royal Medical Board. Contrary to earlier belief, the Secretary-General did not die instantly when he was thrown clear of the burning plane, but lay struggling for air in the bush until he suffocated because of injuries to his lungs, chest and spine...
...seated when they arrived, he wordlessly handed a police inspector an identity card in the name of Louis Carriere. (Methodical Raoul Salan took the name from the Paris street where he once lived.) After a studied silence, the cop pointed his revolver at the general's chest, drawled: "You are Salan...