Word: via
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anxious to unload their embarrassing guest, Israeli authorities last week packed Convicted Soviet Spy Robert Soblen onto an El Al plane for a U.S.-bound trip via Athens and London. But as the plane approached London, Soblen stabbed himself in the wrist and stomach with a steak knife, forcing British authorities to take him on as a hospital patient. The delay that Soblen won by his dramatic suicide attempt immediately created a legal tangle. Though the Home Office insisted that Soblen was not legally in Britain, two barristers-one a Labor M.P.-obtained a writ of habeas corpus delaying...
...close together, their crews will not be able to see each other or communicate by radio; the moon's surface curves so sharply that a few hundred miles of distance will put each of them below the other's horizon. Theoretically they can communicate by relaying messages via the earth, but this cumbersome system is not likely to prove dependable...
...ancient citadels of art. They were the leaders of Atlanta's cultural life, and they feasted their senses at the Louvre, at St. Peter's and St. Mark's, at the Tate and the Uffizi Gallery and the Doges Palace. They had dined on the Via Veneto and in Maxim...
...Insistently, radio bulletins tolled the death list. The Journal issued an extra-the first since Author (Gone With the Wind) Margaret Mitchell died 13 years ago. President Kennedy and President de Gaulle wired their sympa thies. Mayor Allen said, "This was my generation ... my friends," and departed, via Air France, for the scene of the crash...
...formal meetings stopped Thursday night, but the politicking via liquor and secret conference continued. Delegates and about half of Springfield mobbed the Sheraton lobby for free drinks and food supplied by the candidates. Peabody's bar dispensed the hard stuff for about five straight hours, but Kennedy limited his offering to coke, ginger ale, and Seven-Up, much to the dismay of several delegates...