Word: pipers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cherokee Grandmother. As the Pied Piper of Harlem, Powell has an odd set of credentials. Most of his followers are Negroes; and though the lightskinned, hazel-eyed Powell has represented himself in the past as the grandson of a branded slave, he now says he is not a Negro (his grandmother, he says, was a Cherokee Indian, his other grandparents white). Most of his constituents know the sting of poverty; Powell has never lacked money. His mother, Mattie Powell, was an illegitimate heiress of the Schaefer brewing fortune, according to her son, and his father dabbled in Harlem real estate...
Kennedy's saturation campaign was a political wonder. Few towns with a population of more than 300 went unvisited by at least one member of Clan Kennedy, and most of them had three or four return visits. Wherever Jack went, the crowds followed him in Pied Piper numbers-and many of the faces were new. A lively turnout of 4,000 flowed into Milwaukee's Schroeder Hotel one afternoon to look the shockheaded Easterner over and to shake his hand. Said an awed politician: "I didn't recognize a fraction of them, and I know most...
Just as first dawn lighted Cuba's northern coastline one morning last week, a Piper Comanche droned in at 200 ft. over the coastal highway 70 miles east of Havana. One of Fidel Castro's army patrols, carrying a .50-cal. machine gun, opened fire, riddling the plane with bullets. The plane landed hastily just off the road, and out stepped two Florida pilot-adventurers: William Shergales, 34, and Howard Lewis ("Swede") Rundquist, 33, whose foot was gushing blood. Demanded Shergales: "Take me to Fidel Castro...
...University, but actually it is a Ewing principality. Building Lamont up, Ewing prowled about the country, visiting universities and delivering talks that convinced bright young scientists that geophysics at Lamont would be far more interesting than in their own laboratories. To Lamont they flocked, as though following the Pied Piper. When they got to Lamont, they often found no money for their programs. Often, Lament's oceanographic ship, the elderly schooner Vema., sailed without enough money to carry her past her first port of call. As Vema headed into the Gulf Stream, Ewing's land-based aides would...
...embarrassing task for Washington last week was an apology to Castro. After a Florida-based Piper Comanche crashed on a bombing run over a central Cuban sugar mill, killing the two U.S. mercenaries aboard, Secretary Herter sent his "sincere regrets that the plane managed to escape the vigilance of our intensified airfield patrols." President Eisenhower gave the FBI authority for on-the-spot seizure of any suspicious arms caches that might be bound for the Caribbean. Castro used pieces of the plane as props in an irate TV speech, but did not charge that U.S. authorities knew about or consented...