Word: flashful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...floor of the nine-story Ambassador Hotel in Kansas City, Mo. is barred to casual visitors. When an elevator passes the floor below or there are footsteps on the stairs, lights flash, bells ring and a guard springs alert in a room lined with pistols, riot guns and tear-gas bombs. Once divided into six apartments, the entire floor has been remodeled into a top-security weekend retreat. Its tenant: Lieut. General Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr., 28, the nonflying (by father's orders) chief of the Dominican air force...
...them combat veterans, are given to wisecracks about the security net and Ramfis' exalted rank (even though he has temporarily downgraded himself to full colonel while at the staff college). Ramfis' Leavenworth neighbors, a quiet, upper-middle-class group, are jittery over the constant patrolling. "They even flash spotlights into my date's car," lamented a 17-year-old. "I've been embarrassed to death night after night. Is that...
...forehead and rotated the handle . . . There was no particular pain as it penetrated the skin and flesh, but there was a little jolt as the end hit the bone . . . Suddenly there was a little 'scrunch' and the instrument penetrated the bone . . . there was a blinding flash . . . The Lama Mingyar Dondup turned to me and said: 'You are now one of us, Lobsang. For the rest of your life you will see people as they are and not as they pretend to be.' It was a very strange experience...
...including such photographers as LIFE'S Joe Scherschel and A.P.'s Charles Tasnadi (see cut). Some of A.P. Stringer Morris Rosenberg's early copy went out by phone in Yugoslav. At 2:30 a.m. Thursday, United Press Correspondent Joseph Taylor, 31, sent the first wire-service flash on the government's fall in pidgin French. By the time A.P. filed its first bulletin at 3:08 a.m., Taylor's English-language story had been cleared by censors and was clacking over the teletypes. Though phone calls were monitored, the censors concentrated on the Caracas...
Then, about an hour and a half after the A.F.P. flash, the Associated Press, biggest news agency of them all, filed a Moscow-datelined bulletin (which was actually written in London): "The Soviet Union has launched an experimental rocket 300 kilometers into the atmosphere with a human aboard, reliable sources said here tonight." So began a competitive stratosphere flight that outdid all competitors in irresponsibility...