Word: falco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newsmen from the days when he ran the State Department's Near East desk, talked over old times with the New York Times's Bertram Hulen (veteran of 23 years on the State Department beat), TIME'S Jack Werkley, Business Week's Thomas Falco, WOR's Pulitzer-prizewinning H. R. Knickerbocker...
Goals: first period: McKean (Greeley) 1:40; Greeley (Huntington), 3:52; Ward (Minot), 4:10; Abbott (unassisted), 9:50; Toohey (Rogers and Falco), 13:02; Minot (Ward), 13:54; Sears (Allen), Huntington (Moseley and Abbott), 19:30; 15:30; Huntington (unassisted), 19:04; Washburn (Huntington), 19:55. second period: Metayer (Devlin and Roche), 10:34; Abbott (Moseley), 13:45. third period: Coulter (unassisted), 5:16; Minot (Sears), 11:52; Huntington (unassisted), 12:45; Moseley (Abbott and Huntington), 14:43; Sears (Key), 16:10; Sears (Minot and Key), 17:12; Greeley (Huntington...
After 284 days, five million words, a 15,000-page record, 300,000 affidavits, 3,000 original documents, and the oral testimony of 200 witnesses, the Nürnberg war crimes trial drew to an end. The courtroom was almost gay. French Associate Judge Robert Falco drew funny pictures which he passed from the bench down to his wife. In the dock, Builder Albert Speer was playing a game: he drew sketch after sketch of a new house for Banker Hjalmar Schacht (who rejected each version because the bathrooms were in the wrong place...
Inside Spain, ancient monarchist families painfully felt a new, hostile attitude. It was rumored that Jacobo Maria del Pilar Carlos Manuel Fitz-James Stuart Falco, Duke of Alba (Britain's Duke of Berwick), the Duchess of Medina Sidonia, the Duke of Medinaceli and others were fined a half million pesetas for signing a royalist manifesto. It was fact that Alba and five more "ceased" to be members of the Cortes, that royalist officials were fired, that royalist university professors were assaulted by Falangist students...
Soon the Fascist hornets came, angry waves of Sparviero bombers, guarded by Falco chasers which British fighters rose to meet as explosives showered around the departing British warships. One bomb-fall landed all around the Ark Royal, but she emerged from cataracts of spray with all her anti-aircraft guns crackling angrily...