Word: hideaways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...articles and books. But any writing and any talking that Powers undertakes will be under the strict surveillance of the Government; like all former spies, he will be censored and controlled, at least partly, in everything he says or writes for the rest of his life. From Powers' hideaway came word, so far unconfirmed by officials, that he has been offered his old Air Force job, with a major's commission...
Meanwhile the killing continued. Last week Colonel Jean Leroy's anti-S.A.O. commando unit was nearly wiped out in its hideaway villa at El Biar on the heights above Algiers. Leroy made the bureaucratic mistake of ordering typewriters from a supply house. When the crates arrived, they contained an unexpected item-a 20-lb. dynamite bomb which exploded ten minutes after arrival, reducing the villa to four shattered Moorish pillars and a pile of rubble. The blast reportedly killed 18 of Leroy's men and four S.A.O. prisoners in the cellar...
...Speaker he had first known when he was a freshman Congressman from Massachusetts. "They don't make them like that any more," said Kennedy. "He has the courage of ten men." Finally came Harry Truman, who on that April day in 1945 was in Rayburn's Capitol hideaway for a drink when he learned that Franklin Roosevelt had died. Emerging from the hospital room, Truman reported that the Speaker was as doughty as ever: "He told me where to get off just like he did when I was in the White House. I was so happy...
...presented her with a tiny wristwatch, was rewarded with a smile. Then there was a quick trip to flower-decked Malmaison, the Empress Josephine's country retreat, and a gourmet lunch (lobster thermidor, mousse aux fraises des bois, and three wines) at La Celle St. Cloud, the long-ago hideaway of Mme. de Pompadour. And capping it all was the gala evening at the Palace of Versailles, with illuminated fountains and gardens, an 18th century ballet in the glittering Louis XV theater, and a banquet in the Hall of Mirrors...
...blue eyes, a cunning legal mind and a fanatic's zeal. To Leander Henry Perez, 68, there are just two kinds of Negroes: "Bad ones are niggers and good ones are darkies." Although he is not a member of the Louisiana legislature. Perez often operates out of a hideaway office in the skyscraper Baton Rouge capitol, has helped mastermind the legislative struggle against school integration. And at arousing the rabble, Perez has few equals. At a recent meeting of the New Orleans Citizens Council, Perez raised the battle cry against the four Negro girls in the city...