Word: companion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...north of Cyprus, Captain Walter Claussen, 37, felt a gun muzzle at his neck and a soft-spoken Arab behind him on the flight deck. "I am the captain now," said the man, who called himself Abu Ali, a common Arab name. While he kept Claussen under surveillance, a companion dotted the plane with explosive charges the size of cigarette packs...
...tone to tone, now reportorial, now lyrical; from the generality of years rushing by to the specificity of a detailed moment. The author willingly admits that a part of the narrative is "pretty boring" or depicts himself looking over Person's shoulder, perceived by the hero as "an umbral companion," "a larger, incredibly wiser, calmer and stronger stranger, morally better than...
Died. Uffa Fox, 74, yachtsman and boat designer whose trim, seaworthy craft and how-to books on boating helped popularize the sport throughout Britain; of a heart attack; in Worcestershire, England. A salty, pub-loving sailor and longtime racing companion of Prince Philip's, Fox designed dozens of craft ranging in size from dinghies to 37-ft. planers. His most important innovation: a self-righting, self-bailing lifeboat that during World War II was parachuted to airmen downed...
Died. Major General Charles Willoughby, 80, General Douglas MacArthur's chief of intelligence during World War II and Korea; in Naples, Fla. One of the "Bataan Boys" who fled from the Philippines with MacArthur in 1942, Willoughby spent the next nine years as the general's confidant, companion and alter ego. After his mentor's ouster by President Truman in 1951, Willoughby retired from the service to collaborate on an authoritative but adoring biography, MacArthur...
...wall for the Shareholder 15. Like its predecessors which "involved" students in the decision-making process, this nebulous advisory body is earmarked for oblivion. Unless Bok consciously picks firebrand members to insure the committee's aggressiveness, the Shareholder 15 will likely sputter in the shadow of its Corporation companion...