Word: boxers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Request for Boxer. Sunday evening, only some eight hours after Kennedy had given the final go-ahead, the expedition in the first dark was creeping toward the Cuban shore. In Bissel's office, there was a call on the White House line. It was Bundy, being even crisper than usual: The B-26s were to stand down, there was to be no air strike in the morning, this was a presidential order. Rusk was now acting for the President in the situation. Bissell was stunned. He and CIA Deputy Director General Charles Cabell, an experienced air man, went together...
...another proposal. It was manifestly impossible for the Cuban Brigade's small force of B-26s (only 16 were operational) to provide effective air cover for the ships from their distant base. Cabell now asked whether, if the ships were to pull back to international water, the U.S.S. Boxer, a carrier on station about 50 miles from the Bay of Pigs, could be instructed to provide cover. Rusk said no. The President was awakened. Cabell registered his concern. The answer still...
Moffett, 39, a burly (220 lbs.) former professional boxer turned priest, decided to postpone preaching the Gospel and concentrate on trying to improve living conditions. "What would hungry, sick and suffering people think of a new and beautiful church being built?" he asked himself as he set up a tent to live in. "They would probably hate it," he decided...
...often as possible, graduates find jobs fitting their particular skills. Former architects build churches; ex-bankers become diocesan treasurers; onetime Light-Heavyweight Boxer Father Con O'Kelly runs a boxing club in addition to his other parish duties in Stockport, England...
...class Tom Steele, a former Golden Gloves boxer from St. Paul, shewed his style by scoring consistently against Jerry Daly, who held up under the pounding...