Word: advanceman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three New Hampshire primaries ago, an acquaintance of mine who worked as an advanceman for one of the television news programs called up to say that the more he advanced, the more the natives retreated. Could...
Even then it was hard to find an authentic New Hampshire accent, because the state was populated almost exclusively by sturdy real estate salesmen and bluff, honest motel owners, most of whom had emigrated recently from New Jersey. I suggested that the advanceman look up my friend the town clerk, who pumped gas and sold dog licenses and could, in theory, write out a permit that would allow you to bury a body on your land. The town clerk was a good, brisk talker, and although no gossip, he was the preferred source of reliable information on town affairs...
...summer of 1972, Abu Daoud was given the most important assignment of his underground career. He was sent to Munich as an advanceman for the Black September terrorists who carried out the Olympic Games massacre. Traveling under the nom de guerre Sa'ad ad-Din Wali, he spent several weeks in Munich, securing and stashing guns and scouting the Israeli quarters in the Olympic Village. It is not clear whether he remained in the city for the attack on the village and the Shootout at a military airbase near Munich...
...dismissal of Haldeman and Ehrlichman, those two dour Germanic guardians of the Oval Office, seemed mandatory. Neither wanted to quit. Haldeman, a former J. Walter Thompson ad agency vice president from Los Angeles, had participated in all of Nixon's campaigns since 1956, when he was an advanceman for Nixon's re-election as Vice President. He had become probably the second most powerful man in the Government because he determined just who could see the President or whose memos would reach Nixon's desk. Ehrlichman, a Seattle bond lawyer who had been a U.C.L.A. classmate of Haldeman...
Cole then said that he would reassign the advanceman. However, Lindsay's troubleshooter had already done a great deal of damage, alienating a number of local workers from the campaign...