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During the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, a youthful intelligence officer frequently appeared before U.S. officials and reporters and traced the Soviet missile bases on huge blowups of aerial photographs taken over Cuba. So it was perhaps fitting that the same man-John T. Hughes, now 54 and a deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency-picked up his pointer again to conduct last week's briefing on Nicaragua's military buildup. Hughes' performance was professionally impressive, yet questions remained about the reliability of the evidence he was called upon to interpret...
...organized in 1942, when bomb-blitzed London's firemen decided they needed help. Most of the members were young professional firemen who wanted to get into action in a familiar job. Overseas they manned six stations in South England ports, protected docks. The men wore uniforms, drew Army pay, 20 married British brides. In two years they lost only one man-John Stewart Coull, 37, Winnipeg, who was killed last July by a robomb...
ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG MAN-John Dos Passos-Harcourf, Brace...
United Mine Workers is the biggest, richest, strongest, best-disciplined union in the land, and one man-John L. Lewis -has made it all those things. But if U. M. W.'s strength is in Leader Lewis, his strength is no less in that great union, some 500,000 strong. Its half-million votes, plus its $150,000 contribution to the Democratic campaign fund last summer, have made him a prime political power. Needing money for the C. I. O. campaign which has carried him to Labor's peak, he raised-and can raise again when he needs...
...free coinage of the metal. Close on its heels trod Senator Frazier with an amendment for fiat money, Senator Connally for dollar devaluation, many another. The Democratic leadership, unable to stave off a vote, decided to stand and fight the currency inflationists. That meant standing and fighting one man-John William Elmer Thomas, senior Senator from Oklahoma, who for two years has been the ringleader of Congressional inflationists. This tall (6 ft. 2 in.) well-groomed Senator with slick, grey hair above a round, solemn face was born in Indiana 56 years ago. Graduated from De Pauw University, he went...