Word: bullets
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...farm in Minnesota in the 1850s, but Orville was a city boy, son of a Minneapolis storekeeper. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Minnesota just in time to enlist in the Marines at the start of World War II. During the Bougainville campaign, a Japanese bullet ripped through his left cheek, left him unable to speak. As the wound healed-the scar is still visible-Freeman learned to talk again and in the process developed into an uncommonly forceful orator...
...critical situation convinced Alexander that Welbeck must go-and fast. At the Ghana embassy, Alexander found that the terrified Welbeck had spent the night cowering between two beds, keeping up his courage with periodic nips at a bottle of brandy. Escorted by Alexander, Welbeck emerged from the bullet-scarred residence with a weak smile and a face-saving lie: "I am moving only because my government has asked me to go." Aware that any delay might get Welbeck lynched, the British general grabbed him firmly by the arm and snapped: "You come right along now. The plane's waiting...
Illinois. Handsomely greying Democrat Otto Kerner, 52, whose father was once a popular state attorney general, is married to the daughter of Chicago's Mayor Anton Cermak (killed in Miami in 1933 by an assassin's bullet intended for Franklin Roosevelt). Kerner has an impressive six-year record of his own as a reform-minded Cook County (Chicago) judge who helped revamp local judicial procedures, led a successful fight to modernize state election statutes. His key campaign promises: more aid for schools, hospitals and depressed areas downstate...
...they drove to their oceanfront home south of Palm Beach and disappeared. On the night of Nov. 3, 1958, a smalltime bootlegger, Lew Gene Harvey, 21, left his home with a mysterious companion. He, too, vanished in the night. Harvey's body, weighted with chains and with a bullet hole in the head, was fished out of a canal near Palm Beach a few days later, but the Chillingworths were never found. Last week, after years of painstaking detective work, Florida police marked both cases as solved: the Chillingworths and young Harvey, announced Sheriff John Kirk, had all been...
...pinched their cheeks for color, also added color to her life with a swift and exotic imagination. At 16 she had some people convinced that she was mistress to Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, who at Sarajevo was to stop the bullet that started World...