Word: escorters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Greeted by more reporters and television cameras, serenaded by the U.S. Marine Corps Band and Peter Duchin's dance orchestra, the company will sip domestic champagne, nibble at a sumptuous buffet, and attack a 300-lb., 8-ft. cake before Luci, Pat and her ever-present Secret Service escort go off on a honeymoon à trois...
...June 1965 to help celebrate Luci's graduation from National Cathedral School, Pat went along. Beth also suggested that Luci be Pat's date at the Marquette senior prom. Freshly unpinned from her most recent steady boy friend, Luci went to Milwaukee with her Secret Service escort, an outrageous blond wig, and a nom de prom (Amy Nunn) to assure privacy. The escapade was successful on all counts -so much so that she invited Pat to go back to Washington to attend her formal acceptance into the Catholic Church on her 18th birthday...
...fuel depots. As in the week before, Hanoi responded with the most sophisticated weaponry in its defensive armory-and again found it useless. Twenty SAM ground-to-air missiles were fired. All missed. Supersonic MIG-21 fighters rose to tangle with U.S. Air Force F-4C Phantoms flying bomber escort north of Hanoi. North Viet Nam is thought to have only 15 of the advanced Russian jets, and the encounter cost them two of those, knocked down by the Phantoms' Sidewinder missiles-the second and third MIG-21 kills...
...three days the marine tramped bootless through Viet Cong territory. Except to offer him food or water, Dodson's escort ignored him. By day his hands were bound in green nylon cord; at night he was tied hand and foot to a bamboo rack. Passing through villages, people turned out in droves to gape and offer water, candy, cigarettes and bananas. Only in a recently bombed hamlet were the villagers hostile, pushing close in an angry, chanting crowd until the chief arrived to disperse them. Four times, English-speaking Vietnamese appeared. Each asked Dodson's name and told...
...Angeles, where Lynda got together with a furry-looking character named George Hamilton, 26, her beau, now bearded for a movie part. While they fox-trotted at a benefit ball, the U.S. Embassy staff in Madrid was scouting around to find a stand-in for George, to escort the young lady while she's there...