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...sent out 100 resumes, listed himself with five employment agencies, got written recommendations from his Senators, J. William Fulbright and John McClellan. Still, it took him 18 months to find work, as director of the Arkansas State Nurses Association. During his ordeal, he depleted his life savings, cashed in his son's life insurance, dropped the family's hospitalization insurance, sold his coin collection and moved from a twelve-room house to a three-room basement apartment in his in-laws' home...
...fondly, would have been the vice president of a giant corporation if she had lived in an age that was more hospitable to women. As it was, she died of a protracted illness in 1962, and Fisher delayed his move to Washington by two years to see out the ordeal. Ironically, the only other female member of Fisher's immediate family, his older sister, is also afflicted with a mysterious and unnamed blood disease...
McCloskey accomplished the task with such candor, clarity, diligence and wry humor that he became one of the truly rare Administration officials to emerge from the Viet Nam ordeal with his name not only intact but enhanced. When he left to become U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus in May 1973, McCloskey was given a dinner by the National Press Club. Peter Lisagor, the crusty Washington bureau chief of the Chicago Daily News, declared at the time: "It is just plain remarkable that a public affairs official could be so esteemed...
...powered competition were not present at Putney, high-powered racers were. Topranked Bill Koch, who placed third in the 15-km. races at the European Junior Championships last year, won the 15 km., gliding through the familiar terrain near his family farm in Guilford, Vt. In the 50-km. ordeal, Tim Caldwell, a wiry young Olympic hopeful, won going away. And the country's top woman racer, Martha Rockwell, now has 15 individual national titles after winning the women's 5-, 10-and 20-km. contests...
Life became a minute-by-minute ordeal of persecution, torture and imprisonment that stirred world indignation. In the many months that followed, the Panovs emerged as a symbol of oppressed Soviet Jewry. Last summer, finally allowed to enter Israel, they began the delicate process of recovering their...