Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About eight hours after Pueblo was towed into Wonsan, the Pentagon released word of her capture. In Yokosuka, the pregnant wife of Pueblo's executive officer, Lieut. Edward R. Murphy, heard about it from a neighbor, who heard it from her radio. As for the wounded crewmen, the Pentagon could not say which of Pueblo's complement of six officers, 75 enlisted men and two civilian hydrographers had been injured...
Like most South Africans, regardless of color and social status, Clive Haupt was stirred by Louis Washkansky's heart transplant. When Washkansky died, Garment Worker Haupt, 24, said to a neighbor: "I hope the next transplant succeeds." If the statement was obvious and unremarkable then, it soon gained poignancy. For the next transplant involved Haupt's own heart...
...elder brother, longtime Canadian diplomat and Governor-General from 1952 to 1959; of pneumonia; in London. A devoted nationalist in a divided land searching for identity, Massey spent a lifetime at home and abroad championing the idea of Canada's "Canadianness"-a nation distinct from its U.S. good neighbor and Franco-British forefathers. In that cause, he gave an added dimension to the largely ceremonial office of Governor-General, using every ribbon-cutting, banquet, trip and state function to insist that "what we do should have a Canadian character. Nobody looks his best in somebody else's clothes...
...animals that led the attack were later identified as shepherds kept as watchdogs by a neighbor, Ernest George Floyd. Both animals were destroyed, as were three other dogs, one of them believed to be the stray boxer. What caused the attacks? Perhaps nothing more than a sudden move by one of the boys that may have frightened the dogs. Once the angry animals had tasted blood, they obviously became murderously maddened...
...Kampala with his pet Chihuahua Lulu to put in his country's bid for membership. President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia said that his country wants in because it believes that such cooperation is "a matter of life or death." With a hostile white regime in Rhodesia as a neighbor, Zambia sees its economic future in East Africa. Even Somalia's President Abdinashid AH Shermarke, whose country has recently encouraged rebellious tribes in both Kenya and Ethiopia, had cooled off enough to come along and ask to join. The other nations represented-Rwanda, Burundi, both Congos, the Sudan...