Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Defense Command headquarters in Colorado Springs listened incredulously to the high-pitched message coming over the wires. Fortunately, Pearson added, telling the story at a rally in Manitoba last week, he was able to grab the receiver from his four-year-old grandchild, Robin Hannah, who had found the phone in a closet. "I explained to the officer on the other end that war had not begun," said Mike...
Dishonored Grave. The Fifth's all-Southern judges have inevitably been denounced by Alabama's Governor George Wallace as "scallywagging, carpetbagging federal judges." They have been ostracized by former friends, constantly threatened by all-night phone callers. After his son's death in an auto accident, Judge Richard T. Rives was honored by his fellow Alabamians-they threw garbage on his son's grave...
...whom were busy all the time." Survivors will certainly be busier than before-if only in filling out the new work forms on which staffers must make a daily account for every minute of their time. Down in classified ads, an abbreviated force could not stay abreast of the phone calls-a crisis that the paper met, somewhat inefficiently, by hiring an emergency weekend crew...
Garcia hunted up a doctor, who stitched up a 1¼-in. gash cleaving through to the skull. For Garcia, a laconic, spotlight-shunning sort, the aftermath was almost worse than the ordeal of the rescue. There were grateful phone calls from Premier lagan's U.S.-born wife Janet, a U.S. State Department protest, and an announcement that the mounted cops who had ignored Garcia's pleas for help had been suspended. The final flourish was the arrival of a delegation of East Indian women who brought a document of thanks and a pair of gold cuff links...
Blake's chief immediately got on the phone to Wilmington and won approval for a new, expanded lab budget. Five researchers explored more than 6,000 detailed technical references before concluding that "Blake's Effect" really meant a fresh and important development: a film that directly produces a positive image, doing away with the traditional steps of making a negative and printing a positive. When the specially coated film is exposed to light, certain parts of its emulsion are broken down in a process so mysterious that scientists themselves are a bit baffled. The film can then...