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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though few occupants of the rooming house who saw "John Willard" might prove credible witnesses, there were several solid citizens who distinctly recall his appearance and mannerisms. One was Bessie Brewer, the rooming-house manager, who recalls quite clearly the killer's looks, height (about 6 ft.), age (30-32), build (roughly 165 Ibs. and slender) and accent ("He spoke just like any other Memphian," i.e., with a drawl). Other witnesses recounted in detail how a man of that description ran from the rooming house at the time of the shooting (6:01 p.m.), leaped into a white Mustang...
...distance of 320,000 miles on a simulated moon trip- nothing happened. Still attempting to salvage the mission, the controllers next separated Apollo 6 from the dead third stage and used the spacecraft's engine to push it to an altitude of 13 822 miles. From that height, it plunged back into the atmosphere and parachuted to a safe landing and recovery in the Pacific Ocean. Later, NASA reported the orbiting third stage mysteriously broke into "thousands of pieces...
...height of the drug discussion at Harvard last year, John U. Monro '34, then dean of the College, sent a letter to the class of '70 warning of the medical effects of marijuana and LSD. But there was no mention of Harvard's legal position...
Almost everything about Bobby's style and presence strengthens the association. He makes a child's fist, thumb on top, pointed out; the gesture was often Jack's. Bobby's voice is normally thinner and higher; but at the height of his delivery of late, it has gained body and begun to resemble that earlier voice. The Harvard-trained Boston diction, the rhetorical, rising cadence-these are hauntingly similar...
...Some fight fans could protest that Frazier was not in the same class with deposed Champion Cassius Clay-and they might be right-yet he clearly proved last week that he is a legitimate pretender to the dethroned champion's crown. Conceding 39 lbs., 3½ in. of height and 2½ in. of reach to the massive Mathis, who had beaten him twice as an amateur, the ex-slaughterhouse laborer battered Buster with hooks to the head and belted him right through the ropes with a tremendous left in the eleventh round. Mathis staggered to his feet...