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...slow sales have forced the plans to be shelved for the time being. More immediately, the brewer has begun advertising heavily, and is in the process of adding a new superpremium brand, Herman Joseph's 1868. Insists Company President Joseph Coors: "We will fight tooth and nail to improve our market, and we're going to survive...
Stunned, the Pentagon and Lockheed announced that they had just begun to fight. Under Secretary of Defense Richard DeLauer warned Boeing's chairman, T. A. Wilson, "We're going to fight you tooth and nail." The strategy for the House battle was disclosed in June, when a Lockheed computer printout was leaked to the press. The 27-page document revealed that Lockheed executives and Air Force and Department of Defense officials had met almost every morning in the office of Air Force Major General Guy Hecker Jr. for strategy sessions. The printout listed more than 250 Congressmen...
...were repelled by the senseless attack on ceremonial guards. "I saw one trooper with his head blown off and two others lying on the ground covered with blood," said a businessman. Wounded troopers staggered in the road muttering, "Bastards, bastards." Of the 27 people who were injured by the nail bomb in Hyde Park, 17 were civilian bystanders. Said a worker in nearby Knightsbridge: "The first thing I saw was a middle-aged lady on her hands and knees screaming, with part of her foot blown away. Soldiers were lying on the ground partly hidden by the dead horses...
Police investigators traced the blue Morris sedan to a parking lot at a hotel in Kensington. One witness also gave them a description of a man seen parking the car just before the Hyde Park bombing. Police believe that the 10-lb. nail bomb, probably hidden in the trunk of the car, was detonated by remote control from a spot within sight of the incident. If true, it was a measure of how cold-blooded the killers were. Police speculate that a similar device may have been used in the Regent's Park explosion...
DIED. Daniel Sullivan, 76, crusading, mild-mannered FBI crime buster in the '30s, who helped nail John Dillinger and Kate ("Ma") Barker's gang, then in 1942 became a tenacious private investigator whose exhaustive files on criminal activity in the Southeast led to numerous indictments and helped bring about Senator Estes Kefauver's 1950 hearings on organized crime; of pneumonia; in North Miami...