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...first time since Hitler marched in in 1938, Austria was within sight of a time without a foreign soldier on its soil. Cheering crowds lined the 20-mile route to Vienna, crowded the square outside the chancellery. Twice, Raab had to come out and speak. Some in the crowd wept, and Chancellor Raab's voice broke with emotion. "I must thank the Lord God that we have been able to experience this hour for Austria," he said...
Leading the ticket was Morris B. Sachs, South Side garment merchant and local TV impresario (Sacks' Amateur Hour), who ran for city treasurer. In the Democratic primary, Morris Sachs went down to defeat with outgoing Mayor Martin Kennelly, wept in Kennelly's arms while cameras recorded his sorrow (TIME, March 7). Sad Sachs dried his tears when he was offered a place on the organization's ticket. In campaign speeches he recalled fondly: "I sold Dick Daley's mother the first pair of long pants for Dick. Without me, where would he be?" His reward...
...night last October, Benedetto knelt beside her bed and together they recited a prayer to the Virgin Mary. Maddalena unfastened her shift and Benedetto fired into her breast, killing her almost instantly. He ran into the street weeping. His neighbors wept with him, as did the policemen who led him to jail...
...what could I do? I had to fight." A reporter mentioned the bosses. "Unbreakable, just unbreakable, aren't they?" said Kennelly. The results: Daley 364,839; Kennelly 264,775. Merchant Morris B. Sachs, a friend and defeated running mate, kissed Kennelly's cheek, and both men wept...
...orders from his chief, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. With another Cabinet member, Stanton hurried from the bedside of Seward to the tailor's house and set up a frantic headquarters there. While the President lay bleeding in a hall bedroom and Mrs. Lincoln screamed and wept in the front parlor, Stanton "convened a special court of inquiry . . . issued orders, wrote messages . . . summoned high personages . . . and took the reins of government...