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...air chronicler of American lives, a former Incredible (the voice behind Violet's bangs) and the author of The Wordy Shipmates, out this month, which finds the quirk in America's Puritan heritage. Here's what's on Vowell's short list this fall...
DIED Richard Stephen Heyser, whose photos of Soviet nuclear-weapons sites ignited the Cuban missile crisis, once told the Associated Press that he was relieved not to have become the person who started World War III. As a U.S. Air Force major, Heyser flew the U-2 spy plane that took the famous pictures. Those photos prompted President John F. Kennedy to announce in October 1962 that the Soviet Union was building secret missile sites 90 miles (about 150 km) from Florida's coast. A tense standoff with the Soviets ensued. Heyser later won three Distinguished Flying Crosses...
...ships--five American and one European--are at work on Mars, and a handful of others sleep peacefully on the surface or orbit silently above, their missions completed and their systems exhausted. While a lot of the work the spacecraft do is the quiet business of spelunking and air-sampling that thrills mostly space geeks, in recent weeks the news from Mars has been compelling...
...career game against the Rams, throwing for 296 yards and four scores with no interceptions. Clark, a sophomore in his first year as a starter, will likely continue to throw the ball frequently against a Harvard defense that is surrendering an average of 243.2 yards per game through the air. He’ll get little help from a Lehigh rushing attack that is averaging a measly 88.8 yards per game on 2.7 yards per carry. “They’re a very heavy screen team,” senior cornerback Andrew Berry said. “They...
...When moderator Bob Schieffer encouraged the two men to air their grievances against each other, all the drama hung around Obama the Imperturbable. "I think the American people are less interested in our hurt feelings," Obama said. "I don't mind being attacked for the next three weeks. What we can't afford is four more years of the same failed economic policies...