Word: camps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stalin would have to be confronted in Greece and Turkey, and so the Truman Doctrine was launched. But even through the Berlin airlift and the Korean War, Truman searched for contacts with the Soviet Union, whether ballet dancers or scientists. Eisenhower continued to probe for the elusive understanding at Camp David and Paris, even as he sent the U-2 into Soviet airspace...
...while Spenkelink was serving a five-year sentence for armed robbery, he walked away from the minimum-security Slack Canyon Conservation Camp near Big Sur. Driving through Nebraska, he picked up a hitchhiker, Joe Szymankiewicz, 43, an Ohio parole violator who had spent 16 years behind bars for forgery, burglary, theft and other crimes. For several weeks they roamed the country, ending up on Feb. 3, 1973, in Room 4 of the Ponce de Leon Motel in Tallahassee. Next morning, a maid discovered Szymankiewicz dead in bed. He had been bludgeoned and shot twice...
Even fellow Tories were not above tossing off a quip: "When he comes into a room," joked former Party President Dalton Camp, "Conservatives can't make up their minds whether to stand up or send him out for coffee." Rising will now certainly be in order...
...once described by an admiring John Wayne as someone who plays in "real life the role I play in the movies"; of a heart attack; in Dallas. Green Beret Commander Simons won the Distinguished Service Cross in 1970 after flawlessly leading a helicopter raid on a heavily guarded P.O.W. camp near Hanoi only to discover to his chagrin that there were no Americans there to be rescued. Last February the retired colonel led a more fruitful rescue mission on behalf of his old friend H. Ross Perot, who asked him to free two of his Electronic Data Systems employees from...
...couldn't help but think that Epps looked like a worried camp counselor underneath his cool veneer. For two hours, he was to be in charge of these Big Guns, a select group of men and women Harvard asks to go out and beat some equally select bushes for the University's upcoming capital fund drive...