Word: ende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rejection slips go. Except . . . what Houghton Mifflin, the rejecting publishers, did not know was that they were on the receiving end of a sting. The manuscript they turned down in 1977 was a freshly typed copy of Steps, a Kosinski novel that had won the National Book Award...
Cincinnati Reds since 1936, Giles was named National League president in 1951, after withdrawing from a deadlocked election for baseball commissioner in favor of opponent Ford Frick. During the next 18 years, he watched his league end the dominance of the rival American League by winning 16 out of 22 All-Star games and 10 of 19 World Series. After retirement in 1969, the charming, cherubic baseball executive could still turn crusty when defending the interests of club owners. "It's all wrong," complained Giles in 1978, referring to the steep salaries paid some ballplayers. "Too much money...
Before he was finally released on Feb. 12, 1973, Stockdale endured 2,714 days of imprisonment, including three years in solitary confinement and more than a year in total isolation. He was tortured for days on end and, by his own count, was reduced to total submission 15 times. But he also thwarted his captors on quite a few occasions. In 1969, when the North Vietnamese were about to use him in a propaganda film, he battered his face to a puffy pulp with a wooden stool and chopped off his hair with a razor, slashing his scalp...
...would probably give up secrets. He finally employed a lesson he had learned from Thomas Schelling's 1960 The Strategy of Conflict, a work he had come across at Stanford. He stabbed his wrists with broken glass, producing pools of blood that horrified his guards and made them end their interrogations. "I felt the only way I could really deter and stop the flow of questioning was to show a commitment to death," remembers Stockdale. "I don't think that I intended to die, but I intended to make them think that I was ready to die." That...