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