Word: mount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus ended a dramatic stake-out at the Mount Pocono airfield that involved U.S. customs and border-patrol agents. Federal Drug Enforcement officials and Pennsylvania state police. The cops' sporadic watch had begun last month, following a tip that a mysterious chartered plane might land somewhere in Pennsylvania with illegal goods...
...Exactly 13½ hours after the DC-6 touchdown at Mount Pocono, a young American walked onto the 19th floor of a commercial office building in downtown Bogota and pumped three hollow-point bullets into Octavio González, 38, chief of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in Colombia. González slumped to the floor dead. The gunman quickly reloaded and, while secretaries scattered, fired several more shots before putting the revolver to his head and killing himself...
...using such instruments as the huge 200-in. optical telescope on Mount Palomar and newer radio, X-ray and gamma-ray telescopes, modern-day stargazers have pushed the frontiers of understanding even closer to the edges of the universe and into the very cores of the stars. With increasing confidence, astrophysicists are answering some of the questions that man has asked from the time he became a rational being: How far away are the stars? What makes them shine? How long have they been there, and will they exist forever...
...verdict-which casts doubt on all of Bronfman's claims about the kidnaping-may not permit him to slip peacefully into obscurity. Several jurors at trial's end openly charged him with engineering his own abduction. Said one. Mrs. Amelia Dricot, a house wife from Mount Vernon, N.Y.: "I think he planned the whole operation." As early as the first evening of the jury's deliberation, eight jurors voted to acquit the defendants, two wanted to convict, and two remained undecided...
Crimson captain Bill Griffen's horse seemed more interested in having a good time than playing the game and Bobo Tanner's mount was unusually slow...