Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lake side of the house, slashed an opening in a copper-screen door, then used a glass cutter to remove a pane in the French door. The killer reached through the hole to open the door from the inside, then crossed the slate-covered floor, climbed the 18-step staircase, walked stealthily past the open door of Mark Percy's empty room, past sleeping Sharon's closed door and into Valerie's bedroom...
...Fudge Factory." The importance of finding a successor to Ball was heightened by the possibility that Secretary of State Rusk, suffering from fatigue and financial strain, may in time decide to step down. Johnson's first choice for Ball's job, and a possible successor to Rusk, was Washington Lawyer Clark Clifford, a former aide of Harry Truman. The bait was rejected by Clifford and other prospects. So L.B.J. decided to worry about Rusk's successor later, settled on the Attorney General...
Love of the Land. It was appropriate enough for Governor Pat Brown to accompany her every step of the way. Lady Bird endorsed him pointedly: "No one knows better than the grass-roots conservationists the value of having a believer in the Governor's chair." One quip had it that the real reason for her trip was "to beautify Pat Brown"-who needs all the help he can get in his race with Republican Ronald Reagan...
...delicately dubbed "The Before-Need Plan." Prices at Forest Lawn begin at $385 for the cheapest grave; after that, there is literally no limit. Eaton put up giant billboards all over Los Angeles, traded heavily on Adman Bruce Barton's slogan describing Forest Lawn as "a first step up toward Heaven." Eaton's basic pitch: "Everything at time of sorrow, in one sacred place, under one friendly management, with one convenient credit arrangement and a year to pay. ONE TELEPHONE CALL DOES EVERYTHING...
...resignation to the Pope more than a year ago upon falling ill; it may now be accepted. Of the other Spanish cardinals, Malaga's Angel Herrera y Oria, 79, sent a resignation that was accepted, and Tarragona's Benjamin de Arriba y Castro, 80, reportedly offered to step down. Paris' Maurice Cardinal Feltin, 83, said last week that he planned to retire, and Bologna's Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro, who will be 75 next month, is ready to leave at the Pope's pleasure. One U.S. prelate has resigned: Archbishop Edward Howard, 88, of Portland...