Word: clubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dobrynin, in Boston to open a Soviet educational exhibit at Boston College, arrived at Harvard at 12:30 for a private luncheon at the Faculty Club...
...back. So far, the U.S. has lost 689 planes. Their pilots either "buy the farm" (get killed) or end up at "the Hanoi Hilton" (get captured). The three out of four who do get back and manage to complete 100 missions win membership in an elite club that now numbers in the hundreds. When a pilot hits the magic mark, his fellow pilots and flight mechanics roll out the red carpet for his return, give him a rousing, horn-honking parade of fire trucks and maintenance vehicles. In turn, he provides a bottle of champagne, then forks out a month...
...party may adjourn to the gaudy strip of nightclubs outside the base. Or there is always the officers' club, where one of the favorite drinks is a MIG-21, a paralyzing concoction consisting of three jiggers of Scotch and one jigger of Drambuie on the rocks. Some base areas have their own bowling alleys, miniature-golf courses and radio stations that broadcast American pop music. Between their briefings, missions and postflight critiques, however, many pilots are often too busy or too tired to care much about recreation. The schedule is so hectic, in fact, that the Ubon officers...
...what was once a 56-year sentence. Unlike many ex-cons, however, Teddy has refused to mope, instead is coping by making a virtue out of his background. There is hardly a Bostonian who has not heard his story. He has been invited to lunch at the Harvard Club, addressed Wyndham girls' school, and appeared on radio and television. A twelve-part series under his byline has just finished running in the Boston Globe...
...pipe-puffing, peace-seeking Quaker, "the bargaining process is working reasonably well." But the remaining 12% of the disputes present major headaches for industry and for the economy as a whole. If the Ford strike lasts until Thanksgiving, former CEA Chairman Walter Heller last week warned the Economic Club of Detroit, the resulting drop in the gross national product could reach $4 billion...