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Suicide suddenly occurred to him when he spotted the ashtray. He smashed it and, at 7:15 a.m., entered the royal bedroom carrying a shard. The policeman stationed outside the door had gone off duty at 6 a.m. The footman who relieved him, by custom, was walking the Queen's corgis. Her maid was working near by but with doors closed so as not to disturb the sleeping monarch...
...medical school did not graduate its first black M.D. until 1970. (This year 25 of its 418 students are members of minority groups.) Although the VA had a nondiscrimination policy at the time of Vanderbilt's first agreement with the Nashville VA in 1947, exceptions based on "local custom" were used then to segregate black patients and shut out black doctors...
...receivership. Under Gross, Lockheed diversified, building satellites, Poseidon missiles and ships in addition to supersonic airplanes. During one astounding four-year burst in the early 1960s, he nearly doubled Lockheed's profits. A courtly Boston-born Harvard man who enjoyed such amenities as English-tailored suits and custom-made shoes, he could also answer half seriously, when asked what he did for a living, "I am an aircraft mechanic...
...nevertheless stayed married to him for over half a century, until his death at 77. The parental crossfire caused the children to retreat into a private world of secret names and words and In jokes that nourished them until they were able to break free. Yet, in the custom of many first-generation Americans, Burton now digs at his roots with forbearance, humor and a strange affection. Judging from Burton's intriguing confessional, what saved the young Bernsteins from bitterness and obscurity was not surviving with a genius, but a collective genius for survival...
...King in 1975. In a voice heavy with emotion, the new King informed his countrymen of Khalid's death over Saudi radio. "Our love for him compels us to continue his march, pursue his hopes and complete his plans," he said. In accordance with Islamic law and Saudi custom, Khalid's body was wrapped in a brown shroud and buried in an unmarked grave before sunset on the day he died...