Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wife was at his bedside when he died. President and Mrs. Johnson and Vice President Humphrey spoke to her on the phone. The President sent flowers, dispatched a jet plane to return Mrs. Reeb and her father-in-law to Boston. Within two days, local lawmen had arrested four men, William Hoggle...
...Reuters bureaus in Bonn, Germany, and at the U.P.I. office in Frankfurt, was at first dismissed as the work of a crank. The writer turned out to be more than ordinarily insistent. "I am one of those who can never forget," announced a voice over the phone to the A.P. a few days later. Did you get our letter?" Finally the A.P. sent a routine cable asking its Montevideo bureau to notify Uruguayan police. What they found was anything but routine...
...phone, no pool, no pets...
When he answered his office phone one Friday last month, Coates was not surprised to hear a husky female voice announce that Manuel Ruiz, one of a suspected gang which had relieved an armored truck of $110,000, wanted to surrender. Coates accepted the offer. "Dad's playing Dick Tracy again," quipped one of his sons. Coates appeared at the appointed hour on a lonely Los Angeles street corner. "I always do it, and I'm always scared...
...been the highest honor of the year," said Miss Remick, reached by phone in California last night. "My father will be very pleased. He was a graduate of Harvard...