Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charles H. Taylor, Master of Kirkland House, reacted negatively to Seymour's request, since it was submitted the day following the last meeting of the Masters before Dartmouth weekend. "The Masters are not usually disposed to decide important questions like this over the phone," Taylor said...
...jokes are funny as the plot is bitter. The humor is broad ("Vat 69--that's the Pope's phone number"), there are lots of loud, funny songs, and people fly on and off the stage in the best slapstick tradition. You can't help laughing...
...Awfully Sorry." The night after Valachi described "Bobby Doyle" of Stamford, Conn., as triggerman in three 1930 slayings, a Stamford businessman named Robert Doyle, who was twelve years old in 1930, began getting nasty phone calls. Next day, Connecticut's Democratic Senator Abraham Ribicoff protested, and Valachi remembered that his Bobby Doyle, an alias for Gangster Girolamo Santuccio, lived in Hartford. Chairman McClellan allowed that he was "awfully sorry" about the mistake, but a good many people thought that it was disgraceful for the Senate to permit Valachi to broadcast rumors and hearsay. Said Maine's Democratic Edmund...
...last week, four air force fighters swooped low over the tile-roofed capital of Tegucigalpa, as troops cut off access to the presidential palace. Villeda Morales' loyal civil guardsmen put up a vain resistance, and gunfire rattled through the cobblestoned streets. Honduras' President made a last desperate phone call to Ambassador Burrows for U.S. help. But Washington could not act that fast-if indeed it knew what to do. Over the radio came the classic announcement: "The patriotic armed forces" had overthrown the President "to end flagrant violations of the constitution and obvious Communist infiltration...
...advisor. Since he must not rely entirely on Selective Service propaganda for his facts, he will need an office staff equipped to prepare, or at least disseminate, independent information on the current Selective Service situation. Concerned students have a right to receive more from their College officials than the phone number of the Boston Selective Service Board...