Word: chucks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first day in the Marines, this sergeant was yelling at us: 'Serub out those toilet bowls!' I said to myself. 'I want his job.'" Chuck Hamlin...
...most any standard, he is an anomaly among college students, and something of an anachronism. Married twice, 27 years old, a four-year Marine with four military ribbons to his name, caught between the We and Me generations. Chuck Hamlin will clutch his diploma today and cherish it as the culmination of a nine-year personal odyssey. He has come a long way. How many Harvard students finished 485th out of 522 in their high school class (and admit it without blinking)? And how many Harvard students participated in the evacuation of Saigon in April...
...Chuck Hamlin is a can-do type of guy. He is frank in an age of guardedness, blunt in an age of equivocation. "My life is an open book," he says, and his chapters on Harvard range from silly to profound. But you must understand one thing about Chuck Hamlin: he is proud, proud to "have turned myself around," proud to have served his country, proud of his grades, and above all proud to have made...
...distance between the Saigon embassy and the paths of the Yard is incalculable. But whether Chuck Hamlin is pushing helicopters off carriers, cramming for an exam, or selling real estate, he is doing it. Bold assertion belongs to a previous time, perhaps, but that hasn't stopped...
...would not put up much of a fight for confirmation. Around Foggy Bottom the Assistant Secretary-designate has been isolated and ignored since the day he moved in. Still, the President has no plans to abandon the appointment. "Just because Lefever's philosophy is not compatible with Chuck Percy's," asserts a Reagan aide, "doesn't mean you yank the nomination." Percy reportedly called the White House after the hearings to recommend just that course. Cranston and his fellow Democrats on the committee publicly suggested that Lefever withdraw himself from consideration-and threatened to further probe...