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...cocktails and dinner (dessert: glace académique), the guests made little speeches about the affinity of Harvardmen for the presidency (John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Theodore Roosevelt. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and their host), and Kennedy got up to make a few remarks. As he spoke, there was a thud. There, on the floor of the candlelit State Dining Room, lay 54-year-old Overseer Laurence Mallinckrodt, who had had a mild heart attack. After Mallinckrodt was made comfortable on the floor to await an ambulance, the President and his company discreetly tiptoed around him and assembled...
Finches and crows stage nasty attacks, but seagulls turn out to be deadliest. At the climax, Rod Taylor has barricaded his house, nailed planks over the windows, locked the doors, lighted a fire against invasion down the chimney. Suddenly, out of the stillness, comes the thud of heavy bird bodies hurling against the walls, the crashing of glass as birds smash windowpanes, the splintering of wood as beaks peck through the door. One gull manages to wriggle inside a window barricade; before Taylor can strangle it, his arm and hand have been bloodied. The sound track -there...
...their interminable public post mortems on the fallen star, other newspaper editors watched their sales soar-and silently endorsed the sentiments of the man from Hearst. For in the newspaper game, the dog days of August are a time of terrible drought. Circulation and advertising fall with a sickening thud; news simply evaporates under the late summer...
...school board post. To get revenge, Estes set up a rival paper. Upshot: the Independent investigated and printed the first exposure of Billie Sol's tank-mortgage fraud. The alarmed finance companies sent in swarms of investigators, and Billie Sol's empire came crashing down with a thud that reverberated all the way to Washington. On March 29, the FBI arrested Estes on charges of transporting the bogus mortgages across state lines. Estes is now out on bail, but is under both a federal indictment for fraud and a state indictment for theft...
...years Lockheed Aircraft Corp. had known nothing but trouble. Its ill-starred Electra turboprop airliner tarnished the company's name and lost it millions. Its eight-seat JetStar executive plane landed on the market with a thud, and in 1960 Lockheed rode into the red by $43 million. Then last September cancer killed Chairman Robert Ellsworth Gross, 64. who had gambled $40,000 to take over the failing company in 1932. and subsequently gave it not only a place in the sun but also a Constellation. Left to mop up the problems was his shy and schoolmasterly brother. Courtlandt...