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...once again volunteered to fly a hijacker abroad if necessary, since neither of the 727's two pilots was internationally qualified. A professional through and through, Williams is noted for keeping cool under pressure. Says TWA Captain Richard Hastings, who flew copilot on last fall's Roman odyssey: "During the whole trip to Rome he didn't show any emotion. He's a pilot's pilot who knows his job." Once in the cockpit, he tried to calm Barkley but, said Williams, "He was very much upset when he opened...
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...singular odyssey went on. Nixon and his small contingent wandered through the capital, then drove to the Mayflower Hotel for a breakfast of corned beef hash and eggs?his first restaurant meal in Washington since he assumed power. Then he withdrew to his study in the Executive Office Building to sit out the day of protest...
Perhaps the most remarkable of all the anti-war activities involving Harvard people recently was an odyssey to Washington a week ago by a dozen highly distinguished senior Harvard Faculty members, most of them with long-established ties in the government power structure, to publicly lobby for the first time against the war. They insisted that all their meetings-including an emotional encounter with their old associate Henry Kissinger-be on the record. And they went to encourage congressional action to curtail the foreign-policy-making power of the President-"Something most of us would have found horrifying even three...
...professional odyssey of Harry Blackmun has turned back on itself. From the bright but wonkish budding mathematician. to the eager young lawyer, to the dissatisfied middle-aged man who gives up the law to follow his benevolent instincts, he has returned to the position of legal scholar. The rest of the journey is well known to everyone. It will probably end in a few weeks when Blackmun takes the seat on the Supreme Court vacated by Mr. Justice Fortas a year...