Word: survivors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thought she heard the steps. Then, unmistakably, she heard another sound she had also been half-listening for: the harsh roar of shotgun fire. She rushed to the front porch, found two men twitching in a gumbo of blood. One was her brother Roger ("The Terrible") Touhy, 61. notorious survivor of Chicago's Prohibition gang wars, who had been paroled just 22 days earlier from Illinois' Stateville Penitentiary; he died* an hour later on a hospital operating table. The other man, critically wounded, was Walter Miller, 62, a retired police sergeant who was Touhy's friend...
...announced to the House of Commons in his most toneless voice last week that "the governments of the United Arab Republic and the United Kingdom have agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations at the level of chargé d'affaires." Harried, tight-lipped Selwyn Lloyd is the last survivor in office of the luckless foursome of Eden, Lloyd, Mollet and Pineau, who together planned the ill-fated invasion of Suez...
...other moderates: Minister of Public Works Manuel Ray Rivero, 35, a civil engineer who had worked hard rebuilding Cuba's shattered transportation system; Treasury Minister Rufo López Fresquet, 48, and bearded Faustino Pérez. 39, Minister for the Recovery of Stolen Government Property and a survivor of Castro's original invasion on the yacht Gramma...
...Haney. Latest of Playwright William Inge's lost characters, Haney's Lila Green is a high-spirited, Class-D showgirl who left home to search for the bright lights, but who has come back beaten, wanting "to crawl inside a man's shirt and stay there." Survivor of a disastrous marriage and a tour in a mental hospital, Lila moves in on Old Friend
...Suicide Run to Murmansk, the most dangerous convoy trip of World War II, is revisited on film by some men who were there when the going was tough. Guests include former Foreign Correspondent Walter Kerr; David Sinclair, a British sea captain; Lord Beaverbrook: and a U.S. Navy survivor, Charles M. Ulrich...