Word: tow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smashed, and on the house was written "Eichmann" in lipstick letters 20 inches high. On March 16, a fire was set with a sulphur bomb on the fender of Bowman's car. Uncalled delivery trucks arrived from every direction. "One night," said Bowman, "we got five cabs, two tow trucks, 14 pizzas, nine chickens, enough frogs' legs for 18 people, day and night television service, liquor deliveries-everything...
Concerned about the crippling costs of jet operations, Boyd and the presidents zeroed in on one likely solution: consolidating ground facilities. At many airports, each line maintains enough aircraft-support equipment, such as jet tow tractors (average cost: $29,000), engine starters and stairs, to service all the other lines as well. Consolidated repair and engine-rebuilding shops offer even greater possibilities for savings...
With such as these in tow, Preminger could get practically anything he wanted. A mansion in which to film a big dinner party? Mrs. E. Fontaine Broun lent him her palatial estate, Tregaron, which once belonged to her father, the late Ambassador Joseph E. Davies. Assorted objets d'art, classy furniture and rugs? Top-name families and museums donated décor to the tune of $250,000 worth. Extras for the ball? The cream of Washington society, as well as some of the milk, volunteered. A five-room suite in the Mayflower? Democratic National Chairman John Bailey offered...
...House-Senate foreign aid program came seriously compromised out of the committee room. And so, with the last major business of the session cleared away, tired, taut House Speaker Sam Rayburn, 79, agreed to rest his ailing back (TIME, Sept. 1). Last week, with his niece Jane Bartley in tow, Rayburn packed up and flew off for an indefinite rest at his home in Bonham, Texas, leaving behind a promise to return in case any legislative trouble arises...
...defected from the Soviet embassy in Ottawa in 1945 with documents exposing a Soviet spy ring, he had considerable trouble finding anyone in Ottawa to defect to. He called fruitlessly at the Justice Minister's office, vainly told his story to the Ottawa Journal, was finally taken in tow by the Ottawa police only after embassy goons broke into his apartment. Last week, in a sadly wiser world, Dr. Mikhail Antonovich Klotchko, 59, a leading Soviet inorganic chemist, in Canada to attend the 18th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Chemistry, had no trouble...