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Manchurian. In the 1962 John Frankenheimer film The Manchurian Candidate, a former POW war hero is brainwashed and becomes an assassin in a Communist plot to take over the presidency. John McCain is known in certain circles as "The Manchurian Candidate...

Author: By Noelle Eckley, | Title: Campaign 2000, A to Z | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

McCain, who was a POW in the Vietnam War, also looks to benefit from the large poplulation of veterans in South Carolina, where over 400,000 call the state home...

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Candidates Shift Focus To South Carolina, Rest of Nation | 2/2/2000 | See Source »

Soon, the pub's small television room was filled with men, most of them advanced in age, all white-haired, wearing winter coats. Many coats bore the pin of a POW or of a military division...

Author: By Daniel D. Springer, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Voter by Voter, McCain's Volunteers Reach Out | 1/19/2000 | See Source »

...veterans, Orson Swindle, tells voters of the two years he spent sleeping next to John McCain in a Vietnam POW camp...

Author: By Daniel D. Springer, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Voter by Voter, McCain's Volunteers Reach Out | 1/19/2000 | See Source »

...building] has hit [the city] with the force of an architectural meteorite. No question that it's there ... You turn a corner, and--pow!--an apparition appears in glass and half-shiny silver...massively undulating, something that seems...to have been dropped from another cultural world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The TIME Centennial News Quiz | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

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