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Some of the lobbyists laughed aloud, but many greeted the remark with stony silence. Afterward, Panel Member Donald C. Alexander, a former Internal Revenue Service commissioner, called Watt's remark "inappropriate and irrelevant. Since I can't fit into the category dealing with religion, and I'm not black and not a woman, that leaves only one group, and I don't feel I should be left one group, and I don't feel I should be left out. I think the Secretary might have thought I'm mentally handicapped...
...barrier. A natural pilot who graduated without benefit of a college degree from a World War II ace into test flights, Yeager, with his peers, established the exacting, unspoken standards (and style) of test flight in the late '40s. The second book is about the men who came afterward, whose success would be judged by their ability to discern and live up to the credo of the right stuff. Among them were the Mercury astronauts. Goldman saw no dramatically convincing way to contrast the experience and outlook of the two groups, and left the test-flight veterans...
...killed in action. He read eulogies to them in the clear accent of the Maine woods and then asked his men to join in singing Amazing Grace. "I don't care about a lot of things I used to care about," said Private First Class Mike Stevens, 19, afterward. "All I care about now is that the rest of us get out of here safe." Captain Roy's men talk frequently of the two soldiers killed by a rocket as they stepped from their bunker two weeks ago. Says Lance Corporal Randy Lunt, 21: "The pictures we took...
...former high school teacher as "shy and withdrawn," apparently grew weary of her new life of darts at the local pub, golf at the club and loud parties at home. Indeed, she dropped out of sight last March, and police speculate that she may have been killed shortly afterward...
...Afterward, MacDonald found himself in demand as a talk-show and party guest, the quintessential victim of military bureaucracy. Moving to Huntington Beach, Calif., he became a respected community do-gooder and an authority on emergency-room procedures. He lived in a mirror-lined condominium and sailed a yacht, The Recovery Room. Meanwhile, Colette's salesman stepfather, Freddy Kassab, a former Canadian army intelligence operative, and her mother Mildred were obsessed with grief and vengeance...