Word: room
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME'S first office in Saigon was a cramped hotel room. TIME correspondents, in fact, continued to operate mainly out of hotel rooms until May of 1966. Then Bureau Chief Frank McCulloch, now head of LIFE'S Washington bureau, rented a villa in the city's downtown district-a convenient if not commodious structure located between the Presidential Palace and the new American embassy. The two-story, whitewashed building is devoted mostly to office space. During the 1968 Tet offensive, however, correspondents, Vietnamese employees and most of their families moved into the TIME compound...
...fine points of murder, and it was clear that, in the underworld, neatness counts. The 1951 gunning down of Willie Moretti in a Cliffside Park, N.J., restaurant was distasteful to Angelo DeCarlo, who had a better idea: "Now like you got four or five guys in the room. You know they're going to kill you. They say, 'Tony Boy wants to shoot you in the head and leave you in the street, or would you rather take this [a fatal drug], we put you behind your wheel, we don't have to embarrass your family...
...witnesses described the night of horror. They accused the police officers of beating and threatening the people in the motel in a desperate attempt to find a sniper who proved in the end to have been imaginary. Witnesses, some with criminal records, charged that August took Pollard into a room, that there was a shot, and that August emerged saying: "He didn't even kick." Prosecutor Avery Weiswasser contended that August and the two other cops, David Senak and Robert Faille, "chose to kill first and investigate later...
...special green-and-white passes, the Communist leaders-some 300 from 75 parties-were deposited at the Kremlin before 10 a.m. each morning. After four hours of eloquence, the delegates had a two-hour break. Most of them dined on caviar and cold cuts in the first-floor dining room of the Great Kremlin Palace. In a pointed show of conviviality, Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, Premier Aleksei Kosygin and other Russian leaders pulled up chairs to various tables and joined the foreign delegates. Then it was back to business in ornate St. George's Hall for the afternoon...
While out on the town for a few beers in 1956, an Army sergeant named James O'Callahan broke into the hotel room of a teen-age girl on Waikiki Beach. There was a scuffle, the girl screamed, O'Callahan fled. He was later arrested by Hawaiian civilian police, turned over to the military for prosecution and charged with housebreaking, assault and attempted rape. At a court-martial, O'Callahan was convicted and given ten years at hard labor-a penalty harsher than he could have expected from many a civilian court...