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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Push. The Quinns moved into a house on Portlock Road near Diamond Head, where many a newcoming mainland family settled down. A bright lawyer, gifted with exuberant charm and bottomless energy, Bill soon had his teeth sunk into virtually every aspect of island life that appealed to him-especially theatricals (Mr. Roberts, Brigadoon) and politics ("Politics is a happy combination of theater and law"). Some acquaintances say that Quinn was really a Democrat, but switched to the G.O.P. because the Democratic Party in the islands lacked stability and purpose. Says he: "I had a choice: I could either join...
...alone in a room with any man except their husbands. Attacking all forms of dependence upon whites, Elijah set up a Moslem restaurant, cleaning business, barbershop, butcher shop, grocery store and department store on Chicago's South Side, a cafe in Harlem, a cafe and a farm near Atlanta, also bought himself a luxurious, 18-room house near the University of Chicago. He founded "Universities of Islam" in Chicago and Detroit (the latter accredited by the local school board through the ninth grade) to teach his dogma to children and teenagers. Sample from his official temple creed: "There...
...Lecturer. The hecklers' assault began at a hydroelectric dam near Novosibirsk, where 30-year-old Electrician Grigory Fedorovich Belousov thrust himself forward and proclaimed belligerently: "The Soviet Union has no military bases outside her borders, but the U.S. has many in foreign countries. Why is that, I'd like to know...
...take the Nixon party on to Warsaw. Though dissatisfied with the highball proffered him-"You Americans spoil whisky. There's more ice than whisky in this"-Khrushchev was visibly impressed with Nixon's VIP-eouipped 707, and jokingly invited crack Russian Aircraft Designer Andrei Tupolev, standing near by, to "try to steal" some of the ideas. "It's a very well-made plane," he said...
...Nazi trucks, speeding away from the advancing U.S. troops, was hastily abandoned in upper Austria, 37 miles east of Germany's Berchtesgaden. One stalled truck yielded 23 chests crammed with expertly forged British ?5 and ?10 notes with total face value of several million dollars. At a lake near by, bank notes tossed overboard from a second truck began to float ashore. In the months that followed, U.S. Navy divers and British frogmen plunged to the 200-ft. to 250-ft. depths of Austria's Toplitz Lake, and later at least three amateur searchers lost their lives seeking...