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Suspicion deepened into certainty when the police discovered that there were two U.S. citizens-brothers George and Arthur Oppen-living in Gualeguaychú. At 6 o'clock one morning, five husky cops strode into Kirton's bedroom, hauled him off to jail. Not only the Oppens but three members of Argentina's moribund Conservative Party who had also been friendly with Kirton or the Oppens were arrested. For good measure, a few members of the troublesome Radical Party and a Communist or two were also nabbed. In all, 24 men were arrested; all were held incommunicado...
Just after 1 o'clock, the President strode down the middle aisle and mounted the rostrum. He flipped open his big ring notebook and began to read...
...crowd pressed close around the first tee at Los Angeles' Riviera Country Club. A bare-kneed emcee in kilts and tarn strode forward. "Ladies and gentlemen," he announced, "this is the greatest event in the history of the Los Angeles Open, but I have been requested by Mr. Ben Hogan to introduce him and say nothing else. On the tee-Ben Hogan...
Most of the others were waiting as Secretary of State Dean Acheson slipped through the side entrance of the White House executive wing and strode into the Cabinet room. He took his seat at the long, polished table, opened up his little tan leather dispatch case, waited for the conference to begin. At the table there were owlishly grave Treasury Secretary John Snyder, Acting Commerce Secretary Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, intelligence counselors and a brace of presidential aides. For the Defense Department also present were Under Secretary Steve Early, Navy Secretary Francis Matthews and General Omar Bradley, the chairman...
...would pass the word along. A month passed, with nary a nibble. Late one night, as Meldolesi and Reporter Jacopo Rizza wandered into the hills near Palermo, three masked gunmen seized the photographs, led the pair to an abandoned stable. Next morning, the door flew open and in strode Giuliano...