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Anyone who has been a military academy cadet, a cavalry private, an infantry sergeant, a submarine commander, an R.A.F. flyer and a prisoner of war should be ready for the role of Commander in Chief. Not to mention having been a Confederate captain, George Armstrong Custer, who became a Union general in the Civil...
...record, Rudman supports the balanced budget and a peacetime draft ("both men and women should be subject to the draft, but women should not be assigned to combat duty"). His "position on the issues" flyer states that he "would have opposed" the Panama Canal Treaty. A former member of the New Hampshire ballot commission, he ruled against Durkin in the 1974 election dispute. Rudman leaves no paths untrod...
Canadian Ace Billy Bishop shot down 72 enemy aircraft in World War I, 25 in an astonishing ten-day burst. Baron Manfred von Richthofen was first in kills with 80. The irony is that Bishop was not a very skillful flyer and received severe reprimands for cracking up Royal Flying Corps planes...
Nonetheless, the Flyers have matured into a well-oiled, superbly balanced machine. Only once during the season did the team lose two games in a row. No Flyer finished the season with more than 80 scoring points, a rarity in an era of 100-point big guns throughout the league. But twelve players scored 30 points or more...
...basement of the town hall. As chairman in 1976, he played host to fewer than 20 people in his living room. Tonight, with a seven-man race and all the press attention, Kalal is expecting a bigger turnout. He sets out 60 chairs, then places a Reagan flyer on every seat. "If people show up," Kalal observes, "someone will just have to stand...