Word: vigils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...Atlantic west of the Canary Islands. Japanese fishermen that work that remote area figure they will be away from home for at least six months at a time. Since the ocean currents often shift (carrying the tuna with them), the board's survey ships keep constant vigil, reporting their findings to the fishing boats lest they travel 10,000 miles only to find no fish...
...workers, suggested that barbers, beauticians, clerks, waiters and chauffeurs were in a particularly good position to turn in their customers. "Every servant," added Castro, "every employee of one of these rich men that attack the revolution, is a working and humble Cuban who defends the revolution and maintains his vigil." Two days later, to "hit them where it hurts, in the pocketbook," Castro's Cabinet decreed that all property of convicted "counter-revolutionaries" will be seized-as broad a license for governmental stealing as was ever written...