Word: attack
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Died. James B. Donovan, 53, New York lawyer who negotiated the trade of convicted Soviet Spy Rudolf Abel for U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers; of a heart attack; in Brooklyn. Appointed to defend Abel at his 1957 trial, Donovan convinced U.S. authorities it was in their interest to spare the agent's life and use him as trade bait; after Powers was captured, his proposition paid off. During 1962-63 he also negotiated the release of 9,700 Bay of Pigs prisoners, their relatives and other political hostages...
Died. George M. Humphrey, 79, onetime board chairman of M. A. Hanna Co. and Eisenhower's Secretary of the Treasury from 1953 to 1957; of a heart attack; in Cleveland. Conservative in economics as well as politics, Humphrey, upon taking office, demanded and won the right to review all federal projects, then labored to implement Republican promises of a balanced budget by paring spending. He also made comprehensive tax cuts totaling $7.4 billion in the first year alone...
...cigar and bundled up against a chill wind at Sharm el Sheikh, near the tip of the Sinai Peninsula, Israeli Chief of Staff General Haim Bar-Lev talked to newsmen last week about Israel's military plans. "I regard all Egypt," he said, "as ground for attack." Said another officer: "If they continue to make trouble for us, we will continue to make trouble for them...
Died. Johnny Murphy, 61, general manager of the New York Mets during their phenomenal rise to baseball's world championship; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A onetime ace relief pitcher for the New York Yankees, Murphy joined the hapless Mets as a scout in 1961 and took over as G.M. six years later. He helped land Gil Hodges as field manager, traded for such stars as Donn Clendenon, Tommie Agee and Al Weis. Perhaps most important of all was his refusal last spring to trade Pitchers Tom Seaver and Jerry Koosman, who subsequently performed the miracle of Shea...
...because Author Mitchell actually wrote it. Fortunately, he makes no literary claims for it. Instead, the novel is seen as a pathology report on Charles' spiritual trouble, which appears to be a kind of moral onanism. Charles' outrage proves wasteful and leads only to death; similarly, his attack on a corrupt and hypocritical world ends up only satirizing and thus destroying itself...