Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...River National Bank and former President of the U.S. In the course of behaving well, e.g., rescuing girls with rich fathers from bolting horses, Lemuel goes to jail, loses a leg, all his teeth and an eye, is robbed of his savings, and is finally martyred by an assassin. On Pitkin's Birthday, a national holiday, the vile Whipple addresses a mob of American fascists wearing coonskin caps: "Jail is his first reward. Poverty his second. Violence is his third. Death is his last." Shagpoke's youthful followers roar: "Hail, Lemuel Pitkin! All hail, the American...
...departed. Behind him at the curb Ali Chekkal stood chatting with the director general of the Paris police. Unnoticed, a shabby young Algerian slipped up behind them. He put his hand in his jacket pocket and fired. Ali Chekkal staggered and fell. A retired policeman standing nearby grabbed the assassin by the hair and flung him to the ground before he could shoot again. But a few hours later Ali Chekkal was dead...
Honorary Murder. The murder was the most daring assassination yet achieved by the Algerians in their promised campaign to "carry the war to France itself." Most of the killings take place in the wretched Algerian quarters of French cities, where followers of the Cairo-backed National Liberation Front (FLN) fight Messali Hadj's older Algerian National Movement (MNA), and each terrorize fellow Algerians for contributing to the other. Chekkal's assassin, an unemployed plumber named Mohammed ben Sadok, admitted that he had been selected by the FLN for the honor of killing Chekkal...
...witness told CBS that she got an anonymous call saying: "We know your husband's talking to CBS." Dominican representatives in the U.S. refused to participate. One informant led CBS sleuths to his apartment to hear a recording in which by his account Galíndez' alleged assassin was identified. When they arrived the tapes had been stolen. CBS's frightening story within a story was manifest everywhere in the broadcast, and punctuated at the end by the fretful voice of the late Gerry Murphy's fiancee, Sally Ciare: "Even now, in Kansas...
...enforcement agencies of New York were upset, as Costello would probably get to his assassin before the police--unless the assassin was killed by his disgusted employers first. One way or the other, the police stood to lose. Hopefully, they issued a description of a "torpedo" who weighs two hundred and thirty-five pounds, has a "pot belly," and "waddles when he walks...