Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...briefings and conferences through the week, Rusk was almost invariably at the President's side. Even in his seventh floor State Department office overlooking the Lincoln Memorial, the Secretary of State was only an arm's length away from Johnson. A white phone near Rusk's uncluttered desk reaches Johnson directly. Alongside it, a pale green phone with a black receiver hooks him up to the new KY3 super-security network that links the President, the Pentagon and major military commands. Behind his desk hangs a Norman Rockwell watercolor of Johnson inscribed by L.B.J.: "To Dean Rusk...
...case in point was Yale History Professor Staughton Lynd, hero of the New Left and a recent pilgrim to Hanoi, who chided the President for not doing all he could to make contact with the Viet Cong. Why, said he, it was as simple as picking up a phone and calling Prague. "I did it myself last Friday morning. Within an hour and a quarter I was speaking to a front representative who, incidentally, was fluent in English." CBS Radio decided to give it a whirl, spent 24 hours trying to contact a Viet Cong agent in Prague...
Computers calculate their impact points; ominous yellow symbols flash above Chicago, Washington, New York, Detroit. The general reaches for a phone and a nearby communications specialist goes through the motions of connecting him with the President of the United States...
...last week, the phone rang in the big white stucco house on Alpine Drive. The maid-a Beverly Hills policewoman-answered, told the caller that Mr. Firestone could not be disturbed. Twenty minutes later, a black 1965 Ford sedan pulled into the semicircular driveway. Two men walked toward the door. One, Bailey, wore a rubber Halloween mask to hide the knife scars above his right eye. The other, Skalla, had a brown felt hat pulled down over his eyes. Both carried guns-Skalla had one in each hand-and wore surgical gloves...
Salerno entered the contest in mid-November. He was notified that he had won by long distance phone call from Playboy headquarters in Chicago last Tuesday...