Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...courtesy to a former prospective occupant, the White House switchboard has been handling any calls for Richard Nixon that come to NA 8-1414. Kennedy Administration telephone operators would ring Nixon's unlisted number, pass along the message, or connect the caller if the family approved. The service is now at an end. Nixon has changed his telephone number without telling the White House where he can be reached...
...pint of apple juice a day and taking brisk walks in the Swiss woods (though he passed up the clinic's vegetable dinners in favor of juicy steaks sent in from a nearby hotel). But his hospital room was piled with newspapers and books, alive with the ring of telephones and crowded with visitors. In the clinic's driveway, diplomatic limousines came and went. On his orders, diplomats scurried on a triangular course running from Zurich to Paris to Tunis and back. Early this week Bourguiba is scheduled to leave his hospital retreat and journey to rural Rambouillet...
...Ezekiel Dhlamini, a prizefighter of the 1950s who became the heavyweight champion of black South Africa and was known throughout the union as "King Kong." A hero until his death four years ago, he has since become something of an African god. He would clobber his challengers in the ring and later pulp them for good measure in the street outside. Braggart as well as warrior, he let his crown slide, ended up as a dance-hall bouncer who jealously murdered his mistress. Begging for capital punishment, he was given twelve years at hard labor and drowned himself...
...glass and plastic cage in which Adolf Eichmann will sit when he goes on trial. The cage, declare the Israelis, is both to shield Eichmann from assassination by an enraged spectator and to prevent a sympathizer from slipping him a vial of poison such as allowed Hermann Göring to escape the hangman's noose during the Nürnberg War Crimes trials after World...
Last week Sister was stacked up against 2,547 other no-pants dogs at the Westminster. Awaiting her turn, she sat patiently in a tiny cell in the Garden basement. In the ring, she coolly outperformed 70 members of her own breed and a batch of other dogs classed in the "toy group'': Chihuahuas, affenpinschers. Mal tese, Italian greyhounds, griffons...