Word: pumpings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...targets, plunging through sheets of bullets and shrapnel. "As we approached, I knew we had a go," said Hopkins. "The weather was beautiful, but the sky was filled with automatic-weapons fire and flak. I laid my bombs down the center of the area occupying the storage buildings and pump houses." Hopkins' co-leader, Major James H. Kasler, 40, of Indianapolis, recalls: "The whole place was going up. Every bomb that went in set off a secondary explosion. As we pulled out, the flak was real heavy. It was as thick as I've ever seen up there...
...room. "When the editor wanted to have an editorial staff meeting," says New Publisher Carlyle Reed, "he would sit down and think. He was it." Adds Assistant City Editor Tom Horton: "We were so shorthanded you couldn't even consider getting sick." Copley plans to pump in as much as $8,000,000 to give the Union the muscle it needs to fight...
...telephones) Harrisonville Telephone Co. in the farming community of Waterloo, ILL., recently, a visiting New Yorker demanded to see the president. A complaint, perhaps? Not at all. The visitor had just used one of the three sleek air-conditioned telephone booths outside the building; he merely wanted to pump President Henry W. Gentsch's hand and tell him that the big Bell System could not do better than that back home in New York...
...months the conflict in Yemen has kept Egypt and Saudi Arabia at loggerheads, and Cairo constantly mumbles threats of war. As a result, Feisal estimates that he must spend more than $1.5 billion for defense over the next five years. Money is no problem. This year Feisal expects to pump almost 1 billion bbl. of oil, worth $750 million to the government, which would put his country ahead of Kuwait as the world's biggest producer...
...Replica pubs [June 3] indeed! Here in this Detroit exurb we have long loved the Town Pump as a home away from home. It's possible to have your laundry delivered at the Pump and then lose your shirt at Horse, a tough, three-handed card game. Pinochle players have their own corner; the Euchre Club meets Wednesday night. Pool shooters have their table (darts are too damn dangerous). You can buy farm-fresh eggs or homemade horseradish, or leave messages on the bulletin board. No voluptuous nude behind the bar here; there is a slightly salacious wall mural...