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...year-old Bobby Kuhel the best times of all were those Sundays when his Dad sent him to fetch the .22-caliber pistol out of his dresser drawer for some target practice at the U.S. Army rifle range. As manager of the Chase Manhattan Bank's servicemen's branch in Heidelberg, German-born John William Kuhel was a welcome guest at the range, and he and Bobby were both crack shots...
...last week Bobby Kuhel went once again to the dresser drawer to fetch the pistol, but this time neither his father nor anyone else knew anything about it, and Bobby himself was not sure of what he was going to do with it. Downstairs, Bobby's father and mother were staring at another pistol, held by a thug who called himself Wally...
...simplest way would be to fetch oil straight across the Atlantic, from Venezuela, the West Indies and the U.S. (see HEMISPHERE). Alternatively, Britain's Ministry of Fuel and Power has prepared a rationing plan that would slash petroleum consumption-a distasteful step but one which the British could take...
When from across the border rose the rollicking sound of the bridegroom's party on its way to fetch Fatma to her new home, Arabs on the Jordan side began to stream from their houses. Fatma's Jordanian sister Zariphe left off wailing "Why can I not be at my sister's side on her great day?" and joined uncles and cousins of bride and groom across the wire from Fatma's house. They watched Fatma in her white organdy dress and thick rosy makeup as she was escorted to a waiting taxi, its roof piled...
While party politics popped behind them, a handful of Democratic members of Congress reluctantly left their Chicago meetings early this week, boarded an Air Force plane sent to fetch them and flew to Washington for a special briefing on U.S. attitudes on the world's gravest international problem. At the White House, they were ushered into the Cabinet Room for an 80-minute bipartisan discussion about the Suez Canal...