Word: eglin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...YESTERDAY'S New York Sunday Times that Cintra Eglin went and set her nuptials for the spring with Wayne Clifford Wilcox. "Cintra Eglin Sets Nuptials For Spring," the headline says...
Judging from what the author of the article wrote next, Cintra went to high school at the Princeton Day School, which on a map of New Jersey is fairly near the town of Lawrenceville; that's where Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wilson Eglin make their home, according to the article. Mrs. Thomas Wilson Eglin--the author didn't say whether her name's Cintra too--is the chairman of the board of that day school so I guess she and Cintra had a lot in common to talk about around the Eglin dinner table. Which you'd think would have...
...Ball in New York in 1977. Why, she even went to college in Princeton, in the university they've got there, and so she must have seen quite a bit more of her folks than most young people in college ever want to. Maybe she even lived at the Eglin home in Lawrenceville the whole time. And you know what that means: more talk about school stuff...
...Prime Minister? Where is that decisiveness and idealism he seemed to display one or two years ago? Why is he backpedaling on the undertakings he gave the people of South Africa?" While members of South Africa's ruling National Party shifted uncomfortably in their green leather seats, Colin Eglin of the opposition Progressive Federal Party last week sent his questions ringing across the chamber of Cape Town's Parliament. The angry counterattack from South African Prime Minister P.W. Botha: "I am not a weakling who tries to satisfy everybody. I have my own ideas and pattern for leading...
...brigade at Fort Knox, Ky., while Photographer Mark Meyer visited a strategic Air Force base in the Northeast and joined a B-52 bomber crew on a simulated nuclear-alert mission. After getting a look at a Boeing air-launched cruise missile plant in Seattle, Meyer moved on to Eglin Air Force base in Florida, where he covered one of the largest peacetime parachute drops in U.S. history. Says he: "It's one thing to read about military hardware in the newspapers and quite another to stand on the runway as a B-52 flies overhead. Up close...