Word: pair
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...country. Watching the scene, Griggs and two other reporters were grabbed by a Congolese plainclothesman befuddled by bangi (raw marijuana). They were under arrest, he said, as Communist spies. Griggs was ordered to squat on a lawn directly across the street from the Ghanaian embassy. Five feet away a pair of Congolese soldiers lay prone, their rifles cocked and aimed at Griggs's head, with orders to shoot if firing broke out across the street. After an hour, word of Griggs's predicament reached the head of the Congo army, Colonel Joseph Mobutu, who sent an emissary...
...John Kennedy. Driver Baucom and Attendant Walter Myers were admitted by a maid. A few minutes later they were joined by Dr. John Walsh, the family obstetrician. In her second-floor bedroom they found Jacqueline Kennedy waiting, with a white sweater and a tweed coat over her nightgown, a pair of white wool socks on her feet. She gave them a wan smile. "Will I lose my baby?'' she asked the doctor apprehensively (Jackie Kennedy had lost two babies by miscarriage before the birth of her daughter Caroline three years ago-a record that had curtailed her campaigning...
After barely 30 minutes on the ground, Kennedy and his party took off again in the faster DC-6 press plane. At 1:14 a.m., he moved up to the cockpit, adjusted a pair of earphones and hunched over the shoulder of the flight engineer. Poker-faced Press Secretary Pierre Salinger ambled back to the public-address system. "We have just been advised that Mrs. Kennedy has given birth to a baby boy," he announced. "Both mother and son are doing well." The cabin rang with applause...
...Baseball's rookie-of-the-year awards went to a pair of powerful youngsters who forgot about their averages and swung for the fences: in the National League, Los Angeles' Outfielder Frank Howard (6 ft. 7 in., 245 Ibs.), 24, batted .268 but hit 23 home runs and drove in 77 runs; in the American League, Baltimore's Shortstop Ron Hansen (6 ft. 3 in., 190 Ibs.), 22, batted .255 but hit 22 home runs and drove in 86 runs...
...when her father, King Olaf V, himself a topnotch sailor, searched for a good hand to sail in Sunday regattas with his daughter. On deck soon came a prosperous Oslo clothier, Johan Martin Ferner, one of Scandinavia's most eligible bachelors but. alas, a commoner. The pair became discreetly inseparable. In 1953 Astrid's older sister, Princess Ragnhild, married a shipowner and sailed off to Rio de Janeiro. Convinced that one commoner in the royal family was enough, Olaf set his foot down, insisted that Astrid marry some true blueblood. In fast succession. Astrid turned her nose...