Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aboard & Working. For the first two hours that day, the red light outside McElroy's door signaled that the Secretary of Defense was aboard and working alone (red and white lights together mean that he is busy with visitors and not to be disturbed). He buzzed for the first of the dozen cups of black coffee he drinks daily, got it from one of the eleven mess attendants attached to his office (all security-cleared because they are in a position to overhear top-secret conversations). Then McElroy began the breakneck round of business that has not since...
...fined $4 for relieving themselves on nearby railroad tracks. To keep alive, boys resort to stealing, girls to prostitution. "We sleep four at the top of a bed and four at the bottom," said one inhabitant. "My uncle, my husband, my sister, myself and four children. We keep the door open to breathe better...
Near the Beacon Bar, Welsh carried a mike and "plenty of cable," barricaded himself behind a pickup truck just 20 ft. from the Beacon's back door. Said he: "Inside I could see one of the bandits with a woman hostage. A cameraman came up the same alley with me and peeked at the action from behind a fender, giving us a dual advantage." Camera and mike captured some exciting scenes: a cop firing a tear-gas gun at a revolver-armed bandit; globs of gas routing the drunk desperadoes; a bandit's meek surrender; the collapse...
...contest was no stunt. It was proposed to the papers by the state police, stymied in their hunt for a masked man who shot Cohen at the door of his home during an attempted holdup. The prize money was posted by the authorities. Entrants were assured of anonymity and told to mark their forms with an identifying symbol so they could claim the prize if they...
...said the testimony of three military experts who have appeared before his subcommittee at closed-door sessions indicated production rates for these space age weapons should and could be stepped...