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Ward lived in a manner befitting his success. At Hilltop Acres, his $200,000 estate commanding a spectacular view of the Rockies, he gave nightlong parties. Once, at 4 a.m., when a guest remarked that La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe, N. Mex. served wonderful pancakes, Ward chartered a DC-3 and flew all his guests there for a pancake breakfast...
...second, better-organized attack followed the next afternoon. Tipped off, Waynick asked and got promises of strong police protection. A police detail appeared briefly, then left when all appeared quiet. Thereupon Father Florencio Alvarez, a local priest, led his most ardent parishioners down the steep cobblestone street from a hilltop slum behind the chapel. The marchers carried banners proclaiming "Colombia is Catholic" and "We Will Not Be Robbed of Our Religion." Some of them also heaved stones. Halting directly before the church door, Father Alvarez thanked his followers for their "protestation of faith" and denounced "Protestant millionaires from...
...nearly 40 years, a gaunt oil derrick rusted on a hilltop east of Edmonton, a landmark known the country round as "Chamberlain's Folly." While digging for water on his farm in 1911, William Chamberlain had hit a pocket of natural gas and got a hunch that there might be oil on his land. He sank his savings in an oil rig, the first rotary drill ever used in Alberta. The money ran out when the well was down 2,000 feet, with no sight of oil. Discouraged, Chamberlain went back to farming...
...addition, architects Douglas Orr and Eero Saarinen and associates have been authorized to prepare working plans for the structure which will be contemporary in design. It will be located on a hilltop of the Pierson-Sage Square to the rear of the present Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, in the vicinity of Sachem and Prospect Streets...
...followers actually considered the lack of roads a defense weapon. Turkish defense thinking prior to 1947 was sometimes described as the "Gallipoli mind." Widely separate cadres of troops were assigned to defend mountain passes and strategic positions. They had their orders-plant the flag on the hilltop and stick until every man died. If there were no roads, the thinking ran, then the enemy would have a harder time moving than the defenders would have defending. The new military equipment and tactical conception the U.S. brought to Turkey in 1947 demanded that the Gallipoli approach be changed, that the Turkish...