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...expert whose command of 13 languages and tenacious memory ("I can still remember not only what presents were given to me on my third birthday but who gave them and when they arrived") led SHAEF Commander Dwight Eisenhower to hail him as "the greatest living authority on security"; of chronic bronchitis; in London...
...seriously considered now or ten years from now." The Met offered the musicians a cumulative $6 raise by the 1963-64 season, argued that to give the musicians the full $78 would add $750,000 to the cost of an operation that already runs at a chronic deficit (approximately $903,000 last season before contributions, on which the Met depends...
...Bearden, 38, an unemployed auto salesman from Coolidge, Ariz. The other was his tousle-haired son, Cody, 16. The elder Bearden had a 20-year criminal record, had served prison terms for robbery, forgery and grand theft. In 1955 he spent a month in a Phoenix mental hospital. A chronic malcontent, Leon Bearden nursed a large grudge against the U.S. He and his son, he said, just wanted to go to Cuba and renounce their American citizenship. Lacking the air fare, they had decided to commandeer the $5,400,000 jet. But, he insisted, they had no connection with Fidel...
Last month, afflicted with cancer, diabetes and chronic heart disease, Cobb checked into Atlanta's Emory University Hospital. With him, he carried $1,000,000 worth of negotiable securities that he placed on a table beside his bed and covered with a revolver. Then last week, at 74, Ty Cobb died...
...million tons that the Canadian-American Joint Tolls Committee originally predicted for 1960. Among the reasons why the 1960 projection proved over-optimistic was a 20-day longshoremen's strike at U.S. lake ports and a slowdown in ore shipments during the recession. But other difficulties are more chronic and basic. Some shippers complain about slow, costly stevedoring at Seaway ports. Others have been discouraged by erratic shipping schedules and time-consuming accidents and stoppages, notably in the Welland Canal, which is the Seaway's Scylla and Charybdis...