Word: pueblo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NICK NICHOLL Pueblo, Colo...
From the start, Calvert, 49, knew he was dealing with a generation "more sophisticated and better educated" than any before it. And more skeptical: Viet Nam had done little for the image of the military profession, and the Navy was still under the cloud of the Pueblo affair. At Annapolis, Calvert found the engineering-oriented curriculum sadly outdated-symptomatic of the "cultural mismatch" between a hidebound service academy and the young men-black as well as white-he wanted to attract. Some black middies (there are now 38) are even jeered when they try to recruit others back home...
...part of the prefight coverage in Madrid's daily Pueblo, and the dramatic, portentous tone was by no means inappropriate. All Spain was indeed locked into the recent match between West Germany's Peter Weiland and the new idol of Iberia, José Manuel Ibar Urtain, 26, a heavy-thewed, bull-necked Basque whose professional record showed 27 fights and 27 knockouts...
...have the telephone ring and the operator say, 'Sorry to wake you, Mr. President,' and there's just a second until she could get Mr. Rostow in the Situation Room, or Mr. Bundy . . . Had we hit a Russian ship? Had an accident occurred? We have another Pueblo? Someone made a mistake-were we at war?" Few men, listening, could be so sure of themselves, or so hungry for power, that they would not feel a sickening sense of uncertainty that accompanies the finality of decision at the presidential level...