Word: spedding
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...just 98 minutes after John Kennedy was officially declared dead. Technically, Johnson had become President the moment that Kennedy died. But with that ceremony, President Johnson seemed to realize for the first time that the transfer of responsibility was real. And as the blue and white plane sped through clear skies toward Washington at 635 m.p.h., the President, as a President must, began to make decisions. Any personal meditation on the day's events would have to wait until later...
...chartered a couple of airliners to bring 42 Maryland Republicans to Manhattan for lunch, won a barely hedged endorsement from Baltimore's Mayor Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin: "Until I find a better qualified man, I'm for Governor Rockefeller!" After that, Rocky jet-sped to Miami for a six-hour stay, rocketed back to New York for a speech before the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention, shot out to St. Louis for a speech to the city's press club...
...rainy afternoon in Manhattan. On a West Side street, a small black car sped up to a 1951 Ford station wagon and waved it to the curb. Out stepped a man in the uniform of a New York City special policeman. He stuck a pistol into his victim's face while another man, also armed and wearing a Halloween mask, appeared on the other side of the Ford. The thieves knew what they wanted. Inside the old station wagon, guarded by six unarmed messengers, was a load of jewelry and gold bullion valued at some...
Before the squad cars charged up to the scene, however, one of the demolition workers got behind the wheel of the Ford, started it easily, and hid it in the partially wrecked building. When the police arrived, they found nothing but a bunch of singularly unhelpful workers. The cops sped away in search of the stickup...
...loot in the rubble. Others, who had watched their comrades cache the goodies, stole into the rubble, removed what hidden jewels they could find, and carried them home. One man put $200,000 worth into a satchel and took it to his wife. Another gathered $15,000 worth, sped to his farm in Gettysburg, Pa., just a mile or so from Dwight Eisenhower's place, and buried it there...