Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this case was just incredible." The FBI certainly did nothing to discredit this notion, and the facts seemed to bear out the idea. Only five days and a few hours after he was taken at gunpoint from a motel room on the California-Nevada state line in the Sierra Nevadas, Frank Sinatra Jr. was back home. Three men had been arrested and charged with his kidnaping, and all but $6,114.24 of a $240,000 ransom payment had been recovered. Besieged by newsmen's requests for details as to how its sleuths had caught up with the kidnapers...
...Frank Sinatra's 19-year-old son ate a room-service chicken dinner. A professional singer himself for all of seven months, he was traveling with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra, which was in the sixth day of a three-week stand at Harrah's Club in the Sierra Nevadas. The club is on a neon-lit casino strip called Stateline, a non-town that straddles the California-Nevada border along Lake Tahoe's south shore...
Marlin & Mariachis. Ten years ago the only way to get to Vallarta (the In name for it was by boat or on burro-back over the Sierra Madre mountains...
...Harvard students going abroad this summer were able to choose their country of work from a list of 38 participating countries. Besides all of Western Europe, AIESEC operates in Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Japan, Korea and most of South America. The Secretary-General of the organization is presently negotiating to arrange traineeships in Poland. An international engineering program has already sent several students to Polish state 'firms...
Died. Margarita Sierra, 26, peppery Spanish nightingale, who as Cha Cha O'Brien, Castanet-clacking Miami nightclub singer on TV's Surfside 6, for three years played herself down to the last brightly mangled bit of syntax; following surgery for damaged heart valves; in Los Angeles...