Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bearers shouldered Fidel's special refrigerator, two cages of white mice, a bunch of 3-ft.-tall stuffed toy animals bought in Manhattan, and prepared for a triumphal return to Cuba, where every TV station had carried the U.N. speech live, via the Straits of Florida over-the-horizon transmission link, which costs $2,200 hourly. Just before leaving, Castro received a gift package, later opened by the police bomb squad. The contents: ten lbs. of flea powder...
...Western horizon, two attractive candidates for office are being watched with interest: Rudd Smith, 40, the slim brunette daughter of Ruth Bryan Owen, who is campaigning for California's 21st District seat, a sprawling area that embraces half of Los Angeles and several bedroom valleys; and Maurine Brown Neuberger, 52, widow of Oregon's Dick Neuberger and a political virtuoso in her own right (three terms in the state legislature). In her campaign to succeed her husband in the Senate, Maurine is raising the political dust. Laments her opponent, former Republican Governor Elmo Smith: "I am running against...
...midnight ceremony transferring power to the new Republic of Cyprus, held a farewell dress reception for diplomats and a garden leave-taking for 200 personal friends. Then, still resplendent in plumed hat and gold braid. ex-Governor Foot boarded Her Majesty's frigate Chichester and sailed over the horizon to a specially composed bagpipe lament entitled Sir Hugh's Farewell to Cyprus...
...stars were fading and streaks of rose were brightening the eastern horizon as a chartered Learstar, just in from New York, taxied onto an apron at Washington's National Airport. Rumpled and heavy-lidded, Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon stepped forth uncertainly, clinging to the doorframe with one hand as he felt for the step with a wavering foot. He had put in a long night's work...
...that the Bulletin grew up. Born as an occasional handbill on downtown storefronts, the paper had gone daily in 1882 and settled into an indolent rut, focusing mostly on the doings along King Street and the arrival and departure of ships. Allen set about extending the paper's horizon, but not without occasional whimsical excursions into island fun. ?No one could be really sure what would appear on April Fools' Day. Allen once ran a great hoax about the remains of a Viking Ship being uncovered in the sands off Waimanalo Beach, a completely phony yarn that other...