Word: rifkin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deal's been made," shouted a stubble-bearded Bernard Rifkin. "I'm getting the hell out of here!" And out he went, elbowing past the bowler-hatted women guards, and down the narrow stairs to the dirt street below. After him tumbled three more Americans and 13 other hostages, as their surprised lady jailers shrieked at them to halt. "The uncertainty was the signal to move," Michael A. Kristula recalled later. "I said to myself that if the crowd outside was hostile, all we could do was go up the stairs again. But the crowd was friendly...
Listening to all this in their temporary prison over the square, the hostages hopefully rounded up their things but dared make no move while for 51 hours the miners milled around outside. Finally, at 7 p.m., Rifkin led the charge down the stairs, into the waiting convoy of government vehicles, and away down the hill...
...sheer coincidence, four Americans-USIA officers Martin, 27, and Michael A. Kristula, 41; Bernard Rifkin, 52, labor adviser to the Agency for International Development; and Robert Fergerstrom, 26, a Peace Corps volunteer-were in the area to deliver a $15,000 check to finance two new schools. As they sat in the home of the Dutch manager of the Siglo Veinte mine, a twelve-ton Mercedes truck rumbled up, and out piled 60 miners. Waving Czech mausers and pistols, shouting "Gringo! Gringo!" they ourst into the house and hauled out the foreigners. By dawn, 17 hostages were prisoners in Siglo...
Princeton continued ot use a three-back defense in the second half, and fullbacks Sinclair Hatch and Dan Rifkin and halfback Jim Zug effectively bottled up the middle. Thus, the Crimson had to go to the outside, but in the third period it was right wing Dick McIntosh, instead of left wing Kramer, who led the offense...