Word: chucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extra combat-supply missions he has logged more than his share of flights and has been temporarily grounded. Marine Captain Charles Robb, just reassigned to a staff job after commanding a rifle company for five months, has become a cool customer under enemy fire. One day, explained the President, Chuck was taking a shower when he heard the whistle of an incoming round. He listened, then kept lathering away, sure the shell would not disrupt either him or the plumbing. Right enough. It landed 75 yards away...
...sense of betrayal is made even more acute by the fact that the Beatles are such formidable anatagonists. 'Revolution' is a great record. The music is gripping and explosive from the Chuck Berry riff that opens the song, to the bar of feedback that ends it, and the lyrics are some of John Lennon's most rythmically controlled. And when at then end Lennon, rasping shouts, the challenge "All Right" over and over again one trembles in disbelief and honor that he is shouting at the wrong people...
...ball game?" Denny was still fuming when he was called up from a farm club to pitch for Detroit in September 1963. In Tiger Stadium on Sept. 21, he made his major-league debut?against the Chicago White Sox. A few days before the game, Detroit Manager Chuck Oressen took Denny aside, and in a few short minutes of instruction taught him how to throw a curve. Thus armed, McLain mowed down the hated White Sox 4-3, striking out eight batters and aiding his own cause with a home...
...growing phalanx of Republicans bears the New Breed label. Some are more conservative than others, but all are reaching for answers to the questions that many Republicans of an older generation were all too willing to ignore. In the Senate, there are Oregon's Mark Hatfield, Illinois' Chuck Percy, Massachusetts' Ed Brooke; in the House, Illinois' Donald Rumsfeld and Texas' George Bush. The statehouses provide the largest contingent, for it is the Governors who most directly confront the nagging problems of urban America. There are New York's Rockefeller, Massachusetts' John Volpe, Pennsylvania's Ray Shafer, Rhode Island's John...
...Carson McCullers' The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is a journey from comedy to tragedy, from fractured French to utter silence. As John Singer, a deaf-mute silverware engraver living in a small Dixie town, Arkin moves through a gallery of Southern gothic tragedy. A fellow mute (Chuck McCann) does violence to a store window, and is committed to a mental institution, where he dies. A Negro doctor who befriends Singer is racked with cancer, and has a hostile, hate-drugged daughter (Cicely Tyson...