Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House orders moved quickly to take possession of the offices and files of the ousted men. One Cox deputy prosecutor, arriving to pick up some personal papers, was denied even that access. Said he: "Perhaps it wasn't Seven Days in May, but it was one day in October...
...group of students, ignoring monitors who tried to keep them away, charged the headquarters of the metropolitan police. They were driven back by intense automatic-weapons fire. The students then began a strange siege. They simply put a watch on the building while police with rifles attempted to pick off those few who moved around on the debris-littered streets...
First round ballotting will be held at dinner on Wednesday (today) and Thursday, lunch and dinner, at each House. House Committee chairmen are reminded that they should pick up the ballots at Wadsworth House before 5:00 p.m. today. These should be returned to Wadsworth House for counting before noon on Friday...
...random, including a henpecked French intellectual and an American writer at work on a screenplay about Trotsky. Over the novel hovers a controlling symbol, the reiterated memory of the ten minutes in the sunlit, walled garden in Mexico in 1939 when Trotsky was murdered with an Alpine pick. Ramon Mercader is death-obsessed which gives it its greatest strength. ∙ Horace Judson
Stephanie Muscato, an office manager at Hynes Auditorium, said that Miller is a "very level headed, mature individual. It's just not like him to pick up and not tell anyone," she said...