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...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...
...deep-rooted belief in hard work, loyalty and efficiency. The identification began early. Haldeman was a student at U.C.L.A. in the late '40s. Alarm about the Communist threats was approaching its zenith, and his hero then was Congressman Richard Nixon. Today, at 43, still trim, tan and crewcut, Haldeman very much resembles that student of decades past...
Spanish Influence. Rome's Daily American describes Berlinguer as "a movie type caster's idea of an Italian radical." He is slight, wiry, crewcut, courteous but cool in manner. He has dark, piercing eyes and the swarthy color of a Sardinian (Catalan influence in his native Sardinia accounts for his Spanish-sounding name). He is served well at interminably long party meetings by another physical attribute: he can sit for hours without getting sore or restless. For this, comrades at national headquarters on Rome's Via delle Botteghe Oscure call him culo di ferro, which roughly translates...
...university-wide employees' strike caused the trouble--the fairways and greens had been unwatered and unclipped for weeks. Patches of dirt showed through the light-green crewcut putting surface. For Harvard golfers, unaccustomed to this mess, putting was torture...