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Also in the group was Air Force Ace Pilot James Robinson ("Robbie") Risner, 47. Winner of the Air Force Cross for heroism in 1965, he appeared on TIME's cover that year as an exemplar of America's fighting men. A few months later, he ejected from his crippled F-105 near Thanh Hoa in North Viet Nam and was captured. He was a colonel then, but would discover this week that he had been promoted to brigadier general...
...good enough, he can convince his audience that he has experienced them all. The great crooners-from Bing Crosby to Dick Haymes to Frank Sinatra-have usually required wide exposure in cinema or TV to get their total message across. Tony Bennett, today's outstanding exemplar of the line, has been very happy to remain, in his words, "just a saloon singer...
...doubtful that she could ever attain the instant star quality and studied grace of Jackie, or the sensitivity and charm of Lady Bird, but Pat has far outdistanced her own exemplar, Mamie Eisenhower, as White House hostess. More people, 124,805, have passed through the White House during her residence than ever before. Pat also has quietly been carrying on Jackie's restoration, redecorating the Blue, Green and Red rooms and acquiring museum-quality paintings and furnishings...
...deficit has flirted dangerously with the half-million dollar mark. In 1970-1971, the deficit ran over $450,000; for 1971-1972 it is projected at over $375,000. When Derek C. Bok became Harvard's 25th President last July, he inherited a press which, despite being considered the exemplar of university presses in this country, was not on solid footing...
Because of the coolness with which he shields an implied commitment. Cavett may be on the verge of becoming an exemplar, and, by extension, a mentor, of the high school and college generation of Americans; the closest historical analogy might be that cited by William H. Whyte, Jr., author of "The Organization Man," who said that many of his Class of 1939 Princeton undergraduates modelled their actions on the cool stylishness of Fred Astaire...