Word: wood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soon the mother abbess (Peggy Wood) finds a solution. She sends the moonbeam off to shine as governess for Captain von Trapp (Christopher Plummer, slickly miscast), a widower who shares his palatial Schloss with seven troublesome but more or less irresistible children. Appalled by the captain's ironfisted discipline, Maria coddles the youngsters. One stormy eve she packs them all into bed with her, quieting their fears with some doughty Hammerstein stanzas. Eventually she teaches them to sing, captivates their father and marries him. Together they lead their septet across the border to Switzerland, with storm troopers baying...
...along the way. Luckily, Michelle got to New York early on the morning of Feb. 16 without being blown to smithereens; she cached the dynamite in a vacant lot in the prosperous Riverdale residential section of The Bronx, checked into a Manhattan hotel, and got in touch with Ray Wood to report that the explosives had arrived...
...hours later, FBI men swept in, arrested Bowe at his home, Sayyed at his father's store, and Michelle at the Hotel Excelsior. New York police grabbed Collier at the Riverdale vacant lot as he and Wood arrived to pick up the dynamite. The four were charged with conspiring to destroy Government property, which carries a maximum penalty of $10,000 and ten years in prison. Collier was also charged with unlawful possession of explosives...
...Routine Case." At a press conference with beaming New York Police Commissioner Michael J. Murphy, Ray Wood explained: "I just tried to do my best." Commissioner Murphy gave Wood an on-the-spot promotion from rookie ($6,325 annual salary) to detective third-grade ($8,126). Next day Murphy was even more impressed by Wood's performance, upped him once more, to detective second-grade ($8,572). Said Murphy: "There was nothing lucky about this case. An undercover man risked his life for months." Mumbled modest Hero Wood: "I thought this was just another routine case...
Footnote. At one point, Howard Smith insisted unblinkingly that "the civil rights bill would have passed into obscurity if television had not existed" -a statement that went strangely unchallenged by Colleagues Cronkite and Newman, or by Moderator William A. Wood, director of the Office of Radio and Television at Columbia University. "I don't argue with that for one second," responded Cronkite. "But do we cover all the news? I think we cover as much news as many of the bad newspapers in this country." Said Newman: "I think we cover as much news as it is possible...