Word: buz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Readers of Cartoonist Roy Crane's comic strip "Buz Sawyer" were introduced back in 1966 to an outfit called the U.S. Navy Seals (for Sea, Air and Land), an elite bunch of commandos with which Buz performed deeds of derring-do in Viet Nam. It may have seemed like rousing fantasy to readers, but the fact was that just such an outfit was operating in Viet Nam-where its presence was one of the most closely kept secrets of the war.* Only now, in fact, when the Communists themselves have learned of the Seals' presence the hard...
...soldiers and captured 60 while losing only six dead of their own and none at all to capture. The Navy officially admits only that the Seal teams are operating inside South Viet Nam. Nonetheless, there is reason to believe that Ho Chi Minh does not regard the adventures of Buz Sawyer-who helped destroy a SAM missile site in the North-as either fanciful or funny...
...Corris and Buz Cummins clinched the meet in the next-to-last event by recording the team's fourth sweep -- the two hundred yard breaststroke...
...University of Texas graduate and longtime Johnson friend. Goodwin cranks out major texts in far less time than Kennedy's Ted Sorensen did, and Johnson insists that he does it with just as much style. Busby is a quiet, discreet intellectual. Warns one experienced Washington hand: "Watch Buz. He's a comer...
...characters in Pogo--and they are the best developed and most consistent in any comic strip--lobby in The Black Book for an idyl and a humorous view of life; just as the characters in other common strips lobby, with terrible earnestness, for their own interests. You know, Buz Sawyer for the Navy, Steve Canyon for the Air Force, Little Orphan Annie for the Jack Acids and Goldwatery cranks. With the Black Book to hearten it, the Pogo lobby will continue to support...