Word: exits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overnight near a service station. About 12:30 Wednesday morning the kidnapers picked up their prize of $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 bills-12,400 notes in all, wrapped in an 18-in.-square package-and about two hours later released young Sinatra at a San Diego Freeway exit...
...Royal Highland "Black Watch" Regiment at the White House, had enjoyed Ireland's "Irish Guards" on his trip abroad last June, she asked for both. She suggested that the U.S. Air Force's own ceremonial bagpipers appear at Arlington, wailing off over a hill in an exit similar to one that had thrilled Kennedy on the White House lawn. She suggested that an "eternal light" be placed at the head of the grave. It is fed by propane gas so that at night it appears blue-Jack's favorite color...
...these pundits focused on the men most closely surrounding the presidency. Columnist Joseph Alsop was pleased by the prospect that President Johnson planned to keep, for a while at least, most of Kennedy's advisers. But there was one for whom Alsop was willing to open the exit door. "Superhuman fortitude will be required," said Alsop, "or a grave disaster will be risked, if Attorney General Robert Kennedy tries to serve another man as he served his brother." The New York Times's James Reston urged the late President's corps of White House advisers to conquer...
...want to grow up to be any dumb guy," said one Manhattan slum kid recently. Such children know adults who cannot even read the want ads, and sense the despair of unskilled teen-agers loitering on streets where drink, dope or death is the only exit. Yet as other Americans reach new heights of affluence and aspiration, slum kids are made to feel all the more worthless by their poverty and the color of their skin. Often, dinner is a hamburger served in a paper bag; books are nonexistent; home is a rooming house so transient that in a recent...
Without this relatively easy exit, the U.S. must define and publicize more clearly its military and other interests in the area. This requires that the government, press, and professors scrutinize the present policies. The domino theory, which says that South Vietnam is the first piece in a tightly ranked line extending thousands of miles across the Pacific, may not have been obsolete when John Foster Dulles propounded it. But its validity is suspect if some pieces are unwilling to topple dutifully at a push transmitted from China through their neighbors. The assertion that a Vietcong victory in South Vietnam would...