Word: sundowners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After Sundown. With that, he again began choking Gail. Again she lost consciousness, and when she came to, the assailant was choking her mother on the bed. Gail screamed, and the man dragged her to her own bedroom, tied her hands and returned once more to attack her mother. Soon, he got back to Gail, wrapped her in a blanket, hauled her out to his car, threw her in the back and drove away...
...Kennedy retired to the midsummer quiet of the White House to read in solitude, occasionally dine with Presidential Assistant Dave Powers and make one of his twice-daily calls to Hyannisport to check on his vacationing family. Sometimes the President paced in the White House gardens. Or, alone at sundown, he stood on Harry Truman's balcony overlooking the White House fountain, a soothing sight before him: the white spike of the Washington Monument, auto headlights flickering along Executive Avenue, the distant Jefferson Memorial. Perhaps such sights make a President think of his own place in history-but John...
...piled up favorable mention by bicycle riding, swimming, playing touch football and baseball, falling into the bay while water-skiing with Jackie, and barely ducking a crashing boom after he hesitated for a moment in carrying out the President's order to haul in the main sheet. After sundown, guests are mercifully allowed to fade slightly, and everyone is in bed by midnight. After all, next day is apt to be a hard day at the Kennedys...
Aggie talks tough, works hard and lives simply to stay on top of her job. She is at her desk by 4 a.m. and in bed by sundown, having spent eleven rapid hours coaching reporters, manning her battery of phones, shepherding stories into print. "I demand loyalty, hard work, enterprise -and above all, no lying," she says sternly. "If a reporter is off on a bender while working, I want him to tell me so I can protect him, the story and the paper...
...showed up with his wife last fall to teach physics, and a Peace Corps teacher of chemistry and biology. David Schmidt, a Swiss farmer, got so fascinated with Mayflower three years ago that he rented his farm, packed up his wife and four children, now works from sunup to sundown - without pay - making bricks. "When they saw Mr. Schmidt take off his shirt and go to work," recalls happy Headmaster Solarin, "the boys were staggered...