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...Beard chain-smoked cigarettes in Room 269 of Denver's 178-bed Rocky Mountain Osteopathic Hospital behind a sign that said NO SMOKING PLEASE, OXYGEN IN USE. Under treatment for a heart ailment, Dita was well protected against unwanted visitors by tight screening. Western Union called with a telegram that had to be read to her personally. The message: GET YOUR FAT ASS BACK-THERE'S NO ONE TO BUY DRINKS. Dita's laugh rumbled from her diaphragm. "Must be my old drinking buddies from the club," she explained...
...locals cannot afford to fix the dike, and so far they have been unable to get state or federal aid. Finally, in exasperation at bureaucracy, Jack Zuelke, the owner of a Three Forks inn with six feet of water in its basement, dispatched a telegram to the Soviet embassy in Washington: "The people of the Three Forks area, having been ignored by all state and federal agencies, do hereby appeal to the people and government of the U.S.S.R. for foreign aid to alleviate present flood conditions...
...gentlemen, who were science advisors before I was, and chairmen of PSAC under Eisenhower, namely (James) Killian (chairman, MIT Corporation) and (I.I.) Rabi (professor of Physics, Columbia University). They agreed with me that this was a very dangerous thing even to talk about. And we constructed a telegram to ex-President Eisenhower (who was then in Palm Springs) quoting the general and saying that this would be disastrous in its own right and also raised a danger of expanding the war. We sent that telegram to Eisenhower, and as luck would have it, President Johnson was visiting Eisenhower...
Making that telegram convincing will be Nixon's most difficult task. The Group of Ten monetary experts who will be meeting in Washington this week for yet another try at resolving the four month-old economic crisis can testify that the West is not as closely knit as it might...
...show jumper on Britain's Equestrian Team? "Silly gossip," pooh-poohed the palace spokesman. "He is numbered among her friends." No doubt about that. After British Show-Jumping Star Harvey Smith publicly remarked that European Horse Trial Champion Anne was "nowhere near Olympic standard," he got a fast telegram from Meade-not exactly challenging him to a duel, but offering to bet him $600 that he would beat Smith at the Badminton three-day horse trials in April, and another $600 that Smith would not win the event...