Word: summonings
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Olmsted recognized the car as the top-secret Mustang, rushed to a telephone to summon a photographer. Within less than ten minutes, the Free Press had the first public pictures of the car, and Ford saw its carefully tailored plans for secrecy shattered...
...reassuring to note the other day the solidarity and unity of American labor. When over 25 New York workmen can witness a daylight robbery and fail to summon a policeman, even before they realize they can cut themselves in on the loot, it is indeed a heartening sign...
When Jackie told the Secret Service man of her pains, he sprinted for the farmhouse, phoned the Kennedy sum mer home on Squaw Island and asked that someone summon Dr. John Walsh, Jackie's obstetrician, who was "vacationing" on the Cape, while actually on stand-by in the event that Jackie's time might come ahead of schedule. Then the Secret Service man rounded up Caroline and John, took them to the car and sped off for Squaw Island, eight miles away...
...entering a period of ample capital, credit and capacity, and of a burgeoning adult population that will summon up fresh demands for everything from engagement rings to electricity. The Government estimates that by the end of 1963 the U.S. will be producing 30% more than it did five years ago, and that the gross national product will be in the neighborhood of $590 billion-an average of nearly $8,500 worth of goods and services for every working American. Economist Gainsbrugh-joined by many a businessman and economist-looks farther ahead to the time when the frustrated promise...
...families still survive in the feudal splendor they enjoyed when Germany was a patchwork of petty principalities. In Franconia, convivial Count Franz Erbach presides over three family castles (one is kept for hunting parties); at dinner, his liveried chief huntsman stations himself behind the count's chair to summon a footman whenever his mas ter's wineglass is empty. Prince Emich zu Leiningen, 36, whose escutcheon is at least 880 years old, is a globe-trotting big-game hunter who honed his marksmanship as a youth by taking potshots at family portraits in his handsome baroque palace...