Word: raincoats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SOON after eight on most mornings, an elderly man steps out of a Fifth Avenue apartment house and walks with a faltering gait to an office building on Sixth. Few passers-by give him a second glance; in his somber suit, topped by a plastic raincoat on wet days, he seems to be just another Manhattanite going to work. The appearance is misleading. He is Daniel K. Ludwig, the quiet billionaire who has built a shipping, real estate and financial empire that girdles the globe. At 73, Ludwig is worth between $2 billion and $3 billion, which makes...
Head Residents in Cabot and Whitman Halls posted the following description of the assailant: a 5' 11" white dark-haired male, wearing faded jeans and a tan jacket or raincoat. Police said his age was around...
Taped Shotgun. Jackson sat down among the spectators for a few minutes. Then suddenly he opened a satchel, drew out a pistol and tossed it to McClain. He pulled a carbine out from under his raincoat and ordered: "Freeze!" McClain held the pistol against Judge Haley's head. Magee slipped outside and freed Christmas, bringing him into the courtroom. While a bailiff sneaked outside to alert police, one of the men picked up a telephone in the courtroom and forced Judge Haley to call the sheriff's office. McClain reportedly demanded: "Call off your pigs...
...outdoors. One March day, inspired by a "glorious thaw," he trudged out to a nearby woods and had hardly set up his easel when a thunderstorm came up. "I decided nothing was going to stop my painting." he recalled later, "and hurriedly got my huge beach umbrella and my raincoat. I protected my legs with a portfolio (the wind holding it in place). And so I painted with my nose almost on the paper with thunder crashing, boughs breaking and rain falling in torrents...
Some 25 members of the independence organization were waiting outside Manhattan's Plaza Hotel when Chiang arrived for a luncheon meeting of the Far East/America Council of Commerce and Industry. As Chiang walked through the revolving door of the hotel, an Oriental wearing a raincoat ran toward him, pointing a black automatic pistol. New York Detective James Ziede, part of Chiang's security detail, saw the man and grabbed his arm; the assailant's shot, apparently aimed at Chiang, struck the glass door but missed the Vice Premier. The attacker was identified as Peter Huang...