Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Starting from two assembly areas, the marchers streamed down Columbus Ave. and Tremont St. and up Walnut Ave. to the Sherwin School, 70 Windsor St. They stopped at several churches along the way to pick up congregations which had agreed to join the march at the close of their morning worship...
...excited fears about accidental war, Buchwald worried about accidental peace. He imagined a scene that would have spelled the end of the cold war: "Five Russian divisions are demobilized, an atomic testing station in the Urals is destroyed, and 40 new Soviet Submarines are flooded and sunk. The Americans pick up this information, and they immediately sink 14 of their own missile cruisers, slash the tires on every SAC bomber. . . The President closes down the Pentagon, furloughs the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and fires the U.S. Marine Corps Band. Both sides are eyeball to eyeball, headed hellbent towards a peaceful...
...nuclear weapons development. "This bothers me," said LeMay. "And one of the things that I don't like is that, if this is true and they do know more than we do, they may know something that is vital. They may be able to pick up a weakness in our defense system that they can exploit." Insisted LeMay: "There are risks and no amount of talking is going to make them go away." But he had gone along with the other Joint Chiefs, said LeMay, because, "I think that the risks can be held to man ageable proportions...
...binding by law, Charlayne and Walter Stovall applied for a marriage license in Cleveland. On the application form, Stovall said he had been married once before. He now explains: "I had been-to the same wife I now have, Charlayne." For whatever reason, they did not return to pick up the Cleveland license. They were instead married on June 8 in Detroit. After Charlayne's graduation, they moved to New York, took a Greenwich Village apartment. Charlayne, an editorial assistant for The New Yorker magazine, is expecting a baby in December...
...HANK GREENSPUN, a blustering, cantankerous sometime politician and newsman, came down from Nevada last January to pick the bones of the Arizona Journal and, failing in that mission, bought a successful shopping throwaway, the Phoenix Sun, as a kind of consolation prize. Greenspun, who also publishes the Las Vegas Sun, hopes to have his Phoenix Sun rising daily before the end of the year...