Word: upper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There has been little medical argument over Connally's wounds. His doctors agree that a single bullet struck the right side of his back, fractured a rib, then hit the upper side of his right wrist and shallowly penetrated his left thigh. For this bullet to have come from ahead of the car, the shot would have had to be fired from near the level of the floor...
...school, has examined the autopsy material, analyzed the Zapruder film and, with his two sons, has fired some 600 rounds of ammunition with rifles identical to Oswald's. He notes that as a seated person turns to the right to look directly behind, he invariably first shifts his upper body slightly to the left. Such a movement could have aligned the two men to account for the single-bullet wounds. Moreover, the wound in Connally's back is not neatly circular; its vertical dimension is longer. Only a bullet that has struck something else and is tumbling would...
Stone's credentials in the world of finance, Harvard, and the upper class run quite long. At Harvard he presided over the Owl Club and was captain of the heavyweight crew. He currently chairs the board of the West India Shipping Company and the General Energy Corporation...
...operates the Combat Zone just by looking around, so I take Ralph's word for it that sharpers have the upper hand. The scribbler putting the white space on the publicity posters at the Colonial Theatre to more efficient use is without a doubt near the bottom of the hierarchy. He favors light blue ink for his graffiti. There's barely enough room left for the note that he's carefully marking in tonight: "ChRiStiANS G.Green SAYS The OnLy Good 1 SA DEAd ONE. MASTER of CEREMONIES OF MONIES $ OR MASTERS OF DECEIT The ANGLOS." He shuffles to one side...
...considerable Machiavellian skills, he has survived every governmental crisis and triumph while playing a principal role in most of them. He thrives on palace intrigue. This helps drive his critics up the wall as they look at him now and realize that his long journey through the upper reaches of power is one of the most fascinating of our time...