Word: rode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan last week the brothers, as usual, worked both sides of the Street. While Clint Jr. breakfasted with business partners to talk over details of a real estate enterprise, John left his $17,000-3-year suite at the Carlyle hotel and rode the subway downtown to the green-carpeted headquarters of Alleghany Corp. to begin making "a lot of critical decisions" about Allegheny's future. After his business breakfast, Clint Jr., too, showed up at Alleghany to listen in on the intricate briefings on company affairs. Then the brothers headed off for separate tables at "21"-Clint...
Your story on Adolf Eichmann refers to Reinhardt Heydrich suffering a severed spine in the attack on him near Lidice. It was as Heydrich rode through Prague that a hand grenade was thrown into his open car and exploded behind him. His spleen was torn to pieces. In spite of almost immediate surgical intervention, he died several days later. I had to perform the autopsy and found the spine intact. As the whole incident occurred in Prague, the destruction of Lidice cannot be linked with the death of Heydrich in the way described in your statement...
...next morning Johnson rode to Independence Palace, accompanied by Ambassador Frederick Nolting Jr., for a meeting with President Ngo Dinh Diem. In the highceilinged, blue-carpeted salon on the second floor, Diem greeted Johnson profusely, motioned him to a brocaded chair. The business before the two men: South Viet Nam's long struggle against Communist subversion, and how the Kennedy Administration plans to help the Diem government win that struggle...
...building. Mallin ran up a flight of stairs and hid in a hallway storage bin. The G-2 men waited in the apartment; Mallin waited in the bin. At 5 a.m. Mallin crept down the stairs, shoes in hand, and made it past his apartment to the street. He rode a city bus downtown, found a Jamaican cabby he knew who drove him to the former U.S. embassy residence, now occupied by the Swiss. Bluffing his way past Castro's militia guards, he was admitted as a "guest," and there he stayed until he was able to make...
...danger. Earlier in the week, two Navy free balloonists, Commander Malcolm Ross and Lieut. Commander Victor Prather Jr., made a record flight (21.5 mi.) off the U.S.S. Antietam in the Gulf of Mexico, were picked up by a helicopter shortly after their gondola landed in the water. Commander Ross rode a horsecollar sling to safety. Commander Prather, a Navy medical officer on his third balloon ascent, fell from the sling as he was rising to ward the hovering chopper. Dragged under by the weight of his pressure suit, he died soon after a frogman hauled him to the surface...