Word: crewcuts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WILL almost certainly insist on maintaining an independent course as Watergate prosecutor. In one of his first public statements after the appointment, the white-haired, crewcut professor told The Crimson in an exclusive interview that he had definitely decided to take most of his staff from outside the ranks of the present administration...
...crew of the Apollo spacecraft that will rendezvous and dock with a Russian Soyuz spaceship in 1975. His crewmates will be Air Force Brigadier General Thomas Stafford, a veteran of one Apollo and two Gemini flights, and Civilian Astronaut Vance Brand, another space rookie. Though obviously elated, the crewcut, 48-year-old Slayton-who will be the oldest American to go into space by the time of the launch -greeted the news in his characteristic gritty style: "I'd rather be a 50-year-old rookie than a 50-year-old has-been...
...first coach I met was Jimmy Feula. Jimmy's scalp-revealing crewcut and voice reminded me of Gomer Pyle's sergeant. This was understandable, however; as I later found out. Feula had had a long Army career. After nearly breaking my hand with his handshake and a few minutes of small talk. Jimmy too asked me why I had left Drake. I repeated much of what I had previously said to Yovicsin. Then Feula told me how "fair and honest" he was and how he had had "many great colored guys" play for him at Harvard. After talking with "fair...
...Crewcut, clear-eyed and firm of jaw, Colonel Gerald V. Kehrli had been a model Air Force officer for 28 years. In May 1970, he took command of a less-than-spirited air transport squadron at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airbase, and before long the unit was back at a peak of morale. "It was guys like Colonel Kehrli who gave you that go-go spirit," one of his former officers said last week. "He was the kind of man you really wanted to work...
...attack came shortly after the Pontiff stepped out of his chartered Alitalia DC-8 into the bright sunshine at Manila airport. As Paul and Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos pushed through throngs of admirers, a crewcut man in gray clerical garb, holding a crucifix, rushed forward. Suddenly he slipped a foot-long Malay dagger out of his sleeve and lunged. Churchmen around the Pope blocked the assailant, and security men swiftly wrestled...