Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle, 78, paused before the casket in the Rotunda to offer a somber salute. After an estimated 60,000 people had filed through the Rotunda, the casket was returned to the cathedral for the funeral. Outside, the Marine Band struck up Hail to the Chief%#151;notes that were heard repeatedly during the five days-and eight pallbearers carried the casket down the aisle to the catafalque, draped in purple velvet. The Rev. Edward L. R. Elson, the Presbyterian minister who baptized Eisenhower in 1953 (Ike's parents were members of a Mennonite sect...
...Instructional League. "I got bombed in my second start," he admits. In that same game, however, he lined two clean hits. Inexplicably, Tony's vision had improved from 20/300 to 20/20, and his eyesight was pronounced normal by puzzled doctors at Boston's Retina Foundation. "When I heard the news," he says, "I ordered a supply of bats...
...self-reliance. "My father was a Bible-Beltish tile setter who never drank or swore. My stepfather was a logger who gambled, drank, fought, and did just about everything else. They were total opposites, and I had to find my own way." He found it one night when he heard a fellow boarder at a Los Angeles rooming house playing jazz piano. "He seemed to be having so much fun I just flipped," recalls Mason. Thus ended his ambition to become an insurance actuary; he went to Oklahoma City College as a music major...
...West German tourists are welcome in Israel, and many-especially the young-are eager to visit the people of whom they have heard so much but seen so little. Last year more than 13,000 West Germans traveled to Israel and accounted for 3% of the tourist trade. Late this month, Lufthansa will add two more flights a week to Tel Aviv, doubling its total, as the German flag continues to follow trade...
...among the other people working on this film in New Hampshire would be able to doubt him. For "Prophetic Pictures" was being filmed around an abandoned granite quarry, and local legend had it that the quarry, now deserted, was haunted. Everyone in the film unit had heard the story: between two and ten of the quarry's workers had fallen off its walls to mysterious and bloody deaths...