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Just then, Tazewell Shepard, the naval aide who was holding a telephone, called out, "Mr. President, Mr. President, Colonel on the line." Kennedy's whole demeanor changed. With a lilting, joyous tone, he shouted his greetings to Glenn. Then, after five or so minutes of congratulations and chitchat, he gave the phone back to Shepard, stalked back to me and resumed the attack...
CAPE CANAVERAL: International Space Station? More like "The Blob." Just as President Clinton was hailing the "football field"-sized station in his tribute to Colonel Eileen Collins Thursday, NASA was making yet another announcement that the project would cost more -- and take even longer -- to complete than previously thought...
...Except Colonel Tom Rockwell, her boss on the force. Tom helped Hoolihan dry out, so when his daughter Jennifer is found dead, an apparent suicide, he turns to Hoolihan to help solve the mystery of why such a beautiful young thing would put three bullets in her head. Could this have been murder...
...well, he was gone, moved out several years ago following the divorce. The two-story colonial on Cricket Pass, in a tranquil planned community between Baltimore and Washington, should have started to feel a little quiet. After all, Tripp had traveled the world for years with Bruce, a lieutenant colonel in the Army. Fluent in German, she had arranged visits for Congressmen around Allied headquarters in Europe, and in the late 1980s she held a classified job with the Army's elite Delta Force. In a man's world, she had learned to play rough. "A hard lady," recalls...
Since his 1962 debut as Boo Radley, the monster and savior of two Alabama children in To Kill a Mockingbird, Duvall has given more than their due to some indelible movie creatures. The names Frank Burns (MASH), Tom Hagen (The Godfather), Lieut. Colonel Kilgore (Apocalypse Now), Bull Meechum (The Great Santini), Mac Sledge (Tender Mercies) and Gus McCrae (Lonesome Dove) summon sharp, overlapping impressions. The odor of anachronism hangs on most of these characters; they are uneasy with and suspicious of the modern world. While everyone else has gone slack and disorderly, they mulishly hew to an old or private...