Word: midafternoon
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...next ten hours the New Rochelle freight terminal was a battleground. Twenty sharpshooters spread out into houses and onto nearby roofs waiting for a shot at Cowan, and police helicopters whirled overhead. By midafternoon, police got inside the building and moved cautiously from office to office, looking for Cowan. They finally found him, dead by his own gun, as darkness descended...
...news that most of them were expecting: after 20 faltering months, the regime of President Isabel Perón had been toppled. In its place was a junta composed of the army, navy and air force chiefs, led by General Jorge R. Videla, 50, the army commander. By midafternoon, the generals had appointed a Cabinet of military men and pledged a "national reorganization to restore morality and efficiency" and work for "eventual" restoration of democracy. At week's end, Videla was named the new President...
...street repairs are made. On election day, the precinct captains strove mightily to meet the voter turnout quotas expected of them. The captains pointedly greeted voters by their names, while lesser machine workers carefully checked off against neighborhood lists those people who showed up at the polls. By midafternoon, if a "safe" voter had not shown up, a runner was dispatched to bring him in before closing time...
...when the banks would close and bondholders would have to be paid the interest due on their maturing New York bonds. In an unusual concession, some banks agreed to stay open at least an hour later. Meanwhile, Carey pleaded with Shanker. Separately, Beame pleaded with Shanker. Then, at midafternoon, a worn and weary Shanker stepped before TV cameras to say that he would indeed "advise" the teachers' trustees to advance the necessary money. In Washington, Ford reacted cynically by asking his aides: "What did Shanker get in return...
...scene with the President Friday morning was TIME'S veteran Sacramento stringer Tom Arden. As soon as Lynette Fromme's gun was wrested away, Arden began gathering eyewitness accounts of the attempt. San Francisco Bureau Chief Joseph Boyce took off for Sacramento and covered Fromme's midafternoon arraignment. Correspondent John Austin remained in San Francisco gathering background material. The Los Angeles bureau managed to obtain some unpublished memoirs that Fromme had written about her life with Manson. Picture departments in both bureaus sought out exclusive photographs. In Washington, a team of correspondents gathered White House and Secret...