Word: ii
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...example, consider a college junior whose birthday is September 10. If September 10 is the last birthday drawn, men born on that date and classified II-A in 1970 would be safe from the draft, barring a huge...
...quarter of a century, Okinawa has stood as a reminder of Japan's defeat in World War II. Conquered by the U.S. in the last bloody battles of the war, it remained an American-occupied area even after Japan regained its sovereignty. Last week victor and vanquished moved to restore the island to its old owner. After two days of talks in Washington, President Nixon and Premier Eisaku Sato agreed to a timetable for the long-promised return to Japanese control of the Ryukyu chain, of which Okinawa is the largest island...
Dallas-born Jeeb Halaby (his mother was English, his father Syrian) took a law degree at Yale and served as a Navy pilot in World War II, flying the first U.S. jet cross-country in 1944. After the war, he hopped from job to job with indifferent success. At Pan Am, however, his energy and judgment have earned him the respect of associates and the confidence of Founder Trippe...
...exuberant traveler, Voltaire spent two happy years exiled in England, almost three as court intellectual in Prussia. And wherever he went, he tirelessly conducted his guerrilla warfare against royal and ecclesiastical superpower, not excluding the Church of England and, finally, his failed Philosopher-King Frederick II...
...labyrinthine as the author's best-selling Kremlin Letter, it is set mostly in Central Europe late in World War II. The adversaries are a depraved lot of American military and a handful of German exiles-who all want to beat the Allies at setting up the postwar government in Germany-and an equally desiccated lot of Nazis whose aims seem less clear, but whose posturings and preoccupations are more exotic. There is, of course, a doomed agent who is the pawn of both groups. The days of John le Carré's simple, cigarette-smoking depressive...