Word: complainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Minot W. Tripp '61, outgoing president of the HYDC, said last night that "if the members of the Committee for Progress had done something for the club during the past year, they would have no cause to complain...
Enough Blame. For Gail Olmstead and Connie McKone, the toughest job of all was to follow Air Force advice to remain calm and quiet, not to make personal appeals to Khrushchev, not to complain to the press. It seemed to the two women that very little was being done for their husbands. Regularly, every two weeks, the U.S. State Department sent notes to the Soviet Foreign Office and asked that the two officers be released. Regularly, the notes drew evasive replies...
...head south for a vacation. "You had lipstick all over you," he told McKone, remembering the captain's airport reception. But nothing could fluster the man who had stood up to seven months of solitary confinement. "I don't think either one of us has anything to complain about one bit," said McKone...
...addition to the crash last August, at least three other IL-18s have crashed on flights inside Russia. Each had literally broken apart while flying through turbulence. In every case the break occurred just behind the rear passenger door. First-class passengers, who are seated in the rear compartment, complain of a violent sideways jarring motion in turbulent weather. After flying back from the Congo in an Ilyushin, a top Ghanaian official declared: "I will never fly in one of them again. It's like dancing the High Life at 18,000 feet...
...Months Left? Yet for all the activity, some of the rebels are growing discouraged. They lack sufficient means, coordination, complain that the U.S. is half asleep and not doing as much as it could. Operations are difficult; arms-drop plans misfire, and the weapons fall into Castro's hands. On two occasions M.R.P. efforts to arrange arms drops to disillusioned army officers planning to desert with their commands failed when the arms could not be got. As a result, the process of transforming disaffected Cuban army units into active anti-Castro rebels is almost suspended...