Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marksman. In Boise, Idaho. Jess Arnold, 35, was fined $60 for reckless driving after he tried to back his car over his mother-in-law, missed, ran into a utility-pole guy wire, disrupted traffic signals on a nearby corner...
Radar Strike at Sacramento. Now she was airborne. She leveled off at 35,000 feet, moving at better than eight miles a minute, and headed toward her first target: the northeast corner of the northernmost building of the Campbell Soup plant in Sacramento...
Halos Lost at Spokane. The City of Merced headed north through the gathering night toward Spokane and Target No. 2: the northeast corner of the main building of the Centennial Flouring Mills. For this test there was no visual alternative-an SAC umpire, aboard to make sure all rules were observed, took a quarter out of his pocket and taped it over the eyepiece of the optics equipment...
...third and last bomb drop was on the northwest corner of an Earle M. Jorgensen steel company building in Los Angeles. This was an important run for Major Holguin. About six miles from the target was the Cheli Air Depot, named for Ralph Cheli, an Air Corps Medal-of-Honor winner who died in the same Japanese prison camp in which Holguin spent two years. "Every time I go into Los Angeles," says Holguin. "I put one in for old Ralph." He did it again this time: the City of Merced's theoretical bomb landed a couple of city...
Whether or not Perón cowed any restive generals or admirals, he effectively put a halt to the verbal street-corner opposition that flourished during the "pacification" interlude. The night after the speech, Buenos Aires was quiet, deadened by fear...