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...elite unit of helicopter pilots and crew, the 2857th Test Squadron, was stationed at Olmsted Air Force Base in Pennsylvania posing as a rescue team for military and civilians in distress. Their real mission, so sensitive that only the pilots and base commander knew, was to rescue President Dwight D. Eisenhower -- and, later, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon -- in the event of a nuclear attack. Posted outside the blast range of an atomic assault on Washington, they were to swoop down onto the White House lawn when an attack seemed imminent and spirit the President away...
...annual lecture, Senior Admissions Officer Dwight D. Miller addresses the big question--how do you get in--and the smaller, auxiliary questions that shed some light on the closed-door admissions process...
American representative Dwight Jenkins said hiscompany is also trying to cash in on currenttrends with their new oversized gum, "Mondo...
...when only 400,000 U.S. households had TV sets, Tom Dewey called political commercials "undignified" and refused to run them. Nineteen million homes had television by 1952, and Dwight Eisenhower didn't need convincing. The predominant feature of Ike's $1.5 million effort (which had as its slogan the nonincumbent's perennial favorite: "It's Time for a Change") was forty 20-second spots called "Eisenhower Answers America." In tone and substance, the same ads have been run by almost every candidate since the '50s (including George Bush and Bill Clinton during this year's primaries) -- softball queries served...
...seventh day," I wrote the second week of school, "the Lord created Ashvin. And the Lord looked down and saw that Ashvin was good. And the Lord smiled upon Ashvin." This started a series of messages that I posted each night on our entryway door. If Dwight, our proctor, noticed them, he never mentioned anything--he didn't talk much, that Dwight...