Word: craig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Green of Kentucky scored an upset victory in the 60-yard dash, defeating Craig Wallace and the favored Bennox Miller by one tenth of a second. Green's time of 6.0 tied the NCAA record set by Charlie Green in 1966. Many of America's fastest sprinters did not compete in the event. Jim Hines, Tommy Smith, and Charlie Green have already used up their three years of college eligibility. Billy Gaines has not yet entered college...
...America's most celebrated Viet Nam deserters-four young sailors from the carrier Intrepid-finally found comfortable berths in a hospitable Sweden last week. Given asylum on "humanitarian" rather than political grounds by Sweden's Aliens Commission, the sailors-John Barilla, age 20, Richard D. Bailey, 19, Craig W. Anderson, 20, and Michael A. Linder, 19-marked their farewell to arms by lifting champagne glasses in toasts to peace, expanding on their views before ever-present bands of Swedish and foreign reporters and cameramen and thoroughly enjoying the lionizing adulation of Stockholm's artistic establishment...
...other members of the new group, besides Pappenheimer, are Zeph Stewart, Master of Lowell House; F. Skiddy von Stade Jr. '38, dean of freshmen; Daniel B. Magraw Jr. '68, president of the HUC; and two other HUC members appointed by Magraw, James J. Coone '70 and Craig E. Stewart...
...FALL OF JAPAN by William Craig. 368 pages. Dial...
...group of fanatic staff officers made a futile attempt to seize the palace and overthrow the government when they learned of Hirohito's decision. These and other chaotic events leading up to Imperial Japan's capitulation are arranged with precision in The Fall of Japan. Author Craig, a former Manhattan adman, unfolds the story in the you-are-here fashion of popular history. Yet his documentation and use of original sources reflect first-rate scholarship. Among other topics, Craig traces the origins of the kamikaze suicide squadrons, General Curtis LeMay's plans for a low-altitude fire...