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...room-mate walked to window, craned his neck, and stared fixedly at the Charles. There was another pause. "Think it over, fellows." The stranger was putting on his overcoat. "Of course, I'll have to put it up to the boys over...
...managed to whisper a report. His name was Ernest J. Morse. He had begun chasing a speeder near New Haven, and after miles of pursuit had finally flagged his quarry down. But as he got out of his patrol car, the speeder-a dark-haired youth in a grey overcoat-had pulled a pistol, fired once and driven away. The policeman muttered the first three digits of the youth's Massachusetts license number: 169. He gasped: "Go to the car radio and call." The Navy man obeyed...
...reveille the cadets fell in on the weather deck of the training ship, stripped to the waist, washed and shaved out of ice-filled buckets of water. On shore the treatment was reversed: pushups with everyone swaddled in three pairs of pajamas, two blue uniforms, a grey overcoat, woolen cap, steel helmet and pack, in a room as hot as a pressure cooker...
Many inaugurations have run into weather trouble. At Grant's second inauguration ball, the shivering guests danced with their overcoats on, and William Howard Taft's inauguration was attended by snow, sleet and storm. But probably the Presidents most plagued by the weather were the Harrisons. At Benjamin Harrison's inauguration in 1889, "rain," according to one account, "fell in torrents ... Pennsylvania Avenue was a moving ocean of umbrellas." Nevertheless, he allowed the ceremony to take place in the open, which was courageous considering what happened to his grandfather, William Henry Harrison, who appeared at his inauguration...
...Communist cop walked up to the border dividing Berlin, glanced uneasily to left & right, and quickly unbuttoned his overcoat. To a West Berlin patrolman standing guard, the Communist whispered: "For your dead one," and handed over a wreath. Then he disappeared...