Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Determined to win the return of the eleven men-dead or alive- the U.S. decided again to hold back public release of the damning evidence. Instead, the State Department privately confronted the Russians with the recording, hoping that the Soviets would settle the incident quickly to avoid worldwide condemnation. Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy tried it first, called Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov into his Washington office. "Smiling Mike" refused to listen to the recording, but Murphy handed him a Russian transcript. Result: silence...
...futile talks. A day later the Air Force buried two unidentified members of the lost crew in Arlington National Cemetery. The four other bodies had been sent to their families for burial. Somewhere in Soviet territory were eleven more Air Force men, all of them, perhaps, dead. If there was any consolation for the U.S., it lay in the fact that the free world now knew how they died and who killed them...
...best news for the home side is that Bob Bowditch has recovered from the cold that kept him out of the Cornell and Columbia games and on the bench for a good part of the action at Hanover Wednesday. A dead shot and a top rebounder, Bowditch should help the squad to its fourth League win. The Bruins are two and six in League play...
...glass as a chaser, superbly indifferent to the blood that dribbles down his chin. Ekh, Tovarish! What does a man care for such scratches when his heart is bleeding-and not only from the wounds of love. The major's heart is bleeding for all those dead Hungarians: "I know my men. They love these people...
Capote claims that his Holly had three "counterparts in reality," none of them Bonnie: "One of them is dead-she died in Africa; the other two are very much alive and have no intention of suing me." Properly Hollyfied at Claimant Golightly's "presumption.'' Capote tongue-lashed back: "I have never met nor seen this lady . . . It's ridiculous for her to claim she is my Holly. I understand she's a large girl nearly 40 years old. Why. it's sort of like Joan Crawford saying she's Lolita...