Word: reede
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Within two hours after Ike died at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, a black-bordered letter went to some 130 embassies and missions in Washington with the announcement: "The Secretary of State presents his compliments to their excellencies and messieurs the chiefs of mission and has the sad duty to inform them . . ." Each government was then confronted with the question: Whom should it send...
...Assassination Bureau may not have been designed for Saturday matinees, but it fits. A turn-of-the-century adventure spoof about an organization that kills "only to destroy evil," Bureau genially jokes itself along to an absolutely smashing conclusion aboard a giant Zeppelin, where Good Guy Oliver Reed battles Baddies Curt Jurgens and Telly Savalas with swords, fists and some unlikely ingenuity. During the course of the proceedings, there are enough bombings, murders and conflagrations to satisfy the most television-sated kid in the crowd. Even some parents may get a kick out of Bureau, especially if they come prepared...
...been months in coming, and Ike's repeated recoveries from heart attacks and abdominal operations testified to his remarkable vigor. His mind remained undimmed until almost the final hour. A patient at Walter Reed Army Hospital since last May, shortly after his fourth heart attack, Eisenhower suffered three more attacks in June and August. Several times he was in critical condition, only to recover. Last week the bulletins took on a tone of finality. The old soldier's heart progressively weakened until, at week's end, it ceased beating. "His passing was peaceful," said...
Brigadier General Frederic Hughes, commandant of Walter Reed. "He experienced no distress...
...communique he had written in case of disaster: "Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold, and I have withdrawn the troops. If there is any blame or fault attached to the attempt, it is mine alone." As Eisenhower lay dying at Walter Reed, plans were nearly completed for the celebration on Normandy's beaches of the invasion's 25th anniversary...