Word: guarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most unpleasant of all were the digs in Congress and newspaper columns about Pat Nugent's rather minimal military service in the Air National Guard,* at a time when hundreds of thousands of young Americans were serving in Viet Nam. (Lynda's beau, Actor George Hamilton, has not helped in the image department either with his deferment as his mother's sole source of support.) After completing basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, Airman Third Class Nugent became vulnerable to further criticism by arranging a transfer to Andrews Air Force Base near Washington...
...spent the last two weeks at Travis Air Force Base, Ga., on his first summer stint with the 133rd Nation al Guard Tactical Fighter Squadron, where his regular assignment was to work in a clerical section under a Negro master sergeant. His superiors and buddies alike were unanimous in pronouncing him a regular guy and a hard worker. He handled requests for interviews by not giving any. He was photographed on KP duty, and pictures of Nugent tromping down garbage and washing dishes got wide circulation...
...took off with Grimes at the controls, the general as his copilot, and Harold Possum, 43, of Montclair, Calif., as navigator. Because Grimes added extra fuel tanks enabling it to carry 2,000 gallons of gasoline, the Coast Guard figured that the plane could stay aloft no more than an hour after losing power in one engine. Even so, DC-3s are renowned for their ditching capabilities, and searchers were at first instructed to look for a floating plane...
...after day, until the search was abandoned at week's end, the Coast Guard, Navy and Air Force combined to comb a sea corridor that eventually widened to 129,000 sq. miles. At its height, the operation involved 55 planes -eight of them from the Navy carrier Hornet-two Coast Guard cutters, and a destroyer. Merchant ships and airliners were also asked to be on the lookout. They found nothing...
Thereafter, police took no chances. With five stitches in his arm and a transfusion of a quart of blood, Speck was transferred under heavy guard the same night to Bridewell Prison Hospital. In the first confrontation between Miss Amurao and Speck in the latter's hospital room, she pointed a finger at him and exclaimed: "That is the man." Shortly before, Speck had suffered chest pains, which were diagnosed as pericarditis, an inflammation of the heart sac, and his arraignment was postponed...