Word: hitching
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...only hitch was that the guard, who claimed to have been offered a $43,300 payoff by the conspirators, had secretly informed the military police. When the conspirators parked the rented Volkswagen outside the prison walls at 3 a.m., three military Jeeps swooped down, and out piled a score of machine-gun-brandishing soldiers who arrested them. Lady Fleming, who had in the meantime gone for a drive in the country, was picked up at 5:40 a.m., when she returned home...
...Died. T.C. Jones, 50, one of show business' greatest female impersonators; of cancer; in Duarte, Calif. Jones had studied for the ministry and done a hitch in the Navy before crashing Broadway with his imitations of Tallulah Bankhead, Bette Davis and Luise Rainer in New Faces of '56. After that, he swished his way to further success in nightclubs and on television. "Half the time people don't even know I'm not a woman," Jones once boasted. "When I pulled off my wig at the end of New Faces, one woman said audibly...
...evening parade at Eighth and I [Aug. 9]. It was an awe-inspiring display of the tradition and discipline for which the Marine Corps is known. Had there been a first sergeant handy with the right papers, we would have signed up to a man for a 20-year hitch...
Their slim draft of about a dozen pages, a so-called "umbrella agreement," will probably be worked over for months before the Big Four Foreign Ministers finally sign a Berlin Protocol. The ambassadors will meet once again early this week. Then, barring a last-minute hitch, they will dispatch the draft document to their governments for approval. Once that is secured, officials of the two Germanys and the two Berlins must hammer out the final details concerning access to the city and travel between West Berlin and East Berlin and between West Berlin and East Germany. The whole fragile structure...
...factor in shrinking the field was an electoral law that Thieu rammed through the National Assembly in June. It requires a candidate to submit to the Supreme Court the certified signatures of 100 provincial councilmen and city mayors (out of 550) or of 40 Assemblymen (out of 191). The hitch-for Ky -was that in the 44 provinces, only the province chiefs could certify the signatures, and they all owe their jobs to Thieu. Ky submitted 102 endorsements, but only 62 were certified; the court ruled the rest invalid because the endorsers had already signed for Thieu. The President...