Word: mccook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Asleep in a scramble tent at the south end of the 10,000-ft. Danang airbase runway, U.S. Air Force Major George V. Moore of McCook, Neb., was rudely awakened at 1:25 a.m. "Suddenly there were explosions going off all around me," he said later. "I was knocked out of my bed and against the side of the tent...
First problem was to find a compression chamber (usually used for slow decompression of divers and tunnel workers to guard against "the bends"). A construction company in McCook, 30 miles away, agreed to send in one of the 6-ft. by 16-ft., four-ton monsters by trailer truck. It was 1 a.m., 38 hours after his admission, when Douma was carried into the chamber after it was finally set up in a lot at the rear of the hospital. Two doctors fitted him with a special oxygen mask, and stayed with him inside the steel chamber...
Nebraskans went for Nixon, but they are mighty proud of Kennedy's young man: Theodore C. Sorensen, 33, the sharp Nebraska lawyer who is the President's close adviser. Last week, at a dinner in McCook honoring the late Republican Senator George W. Norris, Sorensen returned the compliment with a stinging lecture. Subject: Nebraska as an "educationally depressed area...