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...Dvorak's Quartet in E-flat, Saint-Saens' Septet for String Quartet, Bass, Trumpet & Piano, Fernando Sor's Estudio 5, 12, 9, Minuetto from Sonata (Opus 22), Largo from Fantasia II, Rondo Allegretto from Sonata (Opus 22), Andante Largo (Opus 5, no. 5), Hugo Alfven's Midsummer Vigil, Swedish Rhapsody (no. 1, Opus 19), The Mountain King, A Ballet Pantomime (Opus 87), and Bloch's Schelomo...
Even in Southern California, it seemed a bit bizarre. In the West Covina suburb of Los Angeles county last week, housewives with binoculars kept day-long vigil from ranch-house picture windows, while at night the husbands took over. One manned a spotlight on the entrance to a road running through a 1,100-acre tract of West Covina wilderness. Others, on horseback, patrolled the tract's borders, looking for signs of surreptitious spadework. What West Covina's residents were trying to do was prevent the expansion into their split-level suburb of Forest Lawn Memorial-Park...
Kneel & Pray. But early in its short career, TT4 was already obsolescent. New airborne radars began to make its lonely vigil superfluous. Then, in 1958, Hurricane Daisy caused serious underwater damage. TT4 was evacuated and repaired at a cost of $500,000. Last September Hurricane Donna slammed at the tower again. There was more underwater damage, and once more the crew was evacuated. Only a housekeeping crew of 14 airmen was left aboard. Later 14 civilian repairmen reported for work...
...Wednesday morning, the newspapermen began drifting back into the armory for the second day of the vigil. This morning, the mood of the corps (which seemed overwhelmingly pro-Kennedy) was optimistic, as opposed to the caution that characterized the hour following Nixon's near-concession. Kennedy staffers like Larry O'Brien and J. Leonard Rentsch wandered about a bit more freely and looked confident, as did Wilson, who the night before had been merely harried...
Bazil Thorne drew out ?25.000 in ?10 notes, publicly assured the kidnapers: "God will forgive you if you let my boy go unharmed." But the Thornes' harrowing telephone vigil was interrupted only by calls from ghoulish hoaxers. Last week, as Sydney police stubbornly continued to check out meager clues, a clutch of chidren playing around a ledge rock several miles from the Thorne home discovered a bundle of "rubbish." Inside the bundle was the body of Graeme Thorne. who had been killed within 48 hours of his abduction...