Word: heard
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People thought to have sat next to Oswald on a bus were tracked down all over the world. Agents heard out a woman who was sure that someone had put glass crystals and cleanser in her sitz baths after she had reported seeing Oswald and Ruby together in Michigan (neither was ever in the state). The bureau spent weeks trying to trace a bad check Oswald was supposed to have cashed in a bar in Pflugerville, Texas, and months tracking the origins of graffiti discovered in a boxcar reading LEE OSWALD-FUTURE MAN OF DESTINY, APRIL 4, 1963 (it turned...
...about Ruby's own Cuban back ground. Ruby had visited Havana in both the pre-and post-Castro periods, and there were persistent rumors that he had run guns to Cuba in the late 1950s. An Akron woman gave testimony - later discounted - that after Oswald was slain she heard two Cuban men say: "We have to do away with Ruby because he fouled things up." However, the FBI never turned up proof of any links between Castro's government and either Oswald or Ruby...
...creation of Citicorp Center might have been scripted by Ross Macdonald in collaboration with Pirandello (Six Characters in Search of an Author). It all began one Saturday afternoon in September 1968. Two ambitious real estate brokers, Donald Schnabel, then 36, and Charles McArthur, then 45, had heard that Saint Peter's might be for sale. As Schnabel and McArthur cased the other buildings in the block, they became possessed of what is almost an impossible dream in modern Manhattan: "assembling" all the parcels so that one mighty building could rise on the site...
THAT IS WHY my participation in my first march, earlier this fall, seemed so uncharacteristic. I had read and heard about the injustices against black people in South Africa for many years, and by principle I was opposed to the white minority government there. Many students I knew were passionately committed to supporting the freedom of black Africans, and through listening to them I began to understand why they were moved to demonstrate. Aside from their political commitments, these people were very much like me, with courses, exams, and papers to worry about, jobs, parties and personal relationships to deal...
Jane R. Morhardt, assistant to the Lamont librarian, said yesterday, "Apparently, someone put a cigarette under the smoke detector, setting it off, and then someone heard the warning and pulled the alarm on the sixth floor...