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...house in the Washington suburb of Bethesda, Md., one morning last week. He brought two special delivery packages for the occupant, Ali Akbar Tabatabai, 49. As the balding Iranian bent over to examine them, the "mailman" killed him with three shots from a 9-mm pistol concealed in a sheaf of envelopes...
...hear, however, that Buckley "waved a sheaf of papers at the audience--later to be stylized by Joe McCarthy as 'I held in my hand'--and announced that they were affidavits from everyone the Crimson reporter had interviewed at Yale, each denying the quotes attributed to him." Fairfield says he asked Buckley for copies of these affidavits but Buckley "icily informed me that he had no intention of honoring my request. I could then only concluded that he had lied about the affidavits...
...handed to O.J. Simpson, who takes it up the middle. But there was a difference last week as the 49ers called 30-pull late in their season finale with Atlanta: Simpson was carrying the ball for the last time after eleven years of professional football and a thick sheaf of records: most yardage in a single season; most career 200-plus-yard games (six); most consecutive 100-plus-yard games (seven...
According to a 45-page sheaf of transcripts uncovered last month at the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kans., by Rice University Historian Francis Loew-enheim, Ike taped 27 conversations between 1953 and 1958. His conversational partners were legislators, journalists, aides, businessmen and heads of state, including Ethiopia's Haile Selassie and Greece's Queen Frederika. The recording machine itself, which resembled a supply cabinet, was installed by the U.S. Army Signal Corps in the nearby office of Eisenhower's personal secretary, Ann Whitman. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and some other officials knew of its existence...
...right was battered at the rostrum in three days of bitter and derisive debate. At the outset, Party Chairman Frank Allaun, a left-wing M.P., blamed Callaghan and the Cabinet directly for losing the election. Defeated M.P. Tom Litterick, from Birmingham, angrily hurled a sheaf of papers on the conference floor and shouted, "This is what Jim did with our policies-aye, he fixed all of us! He fixed me in particular." A stream of leftist speakers complained that Callaghan's party had traded socialist doctrine for "watered-down Toryism...