Word: pug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pug and his friends vs. Strom and his family...
This year Thurmond faces the strongest challenge of his Senate career, and from a Democrat who is as much a symbol of the New South as Thurmond is of the Old South: clean-cut, ruggedly handsome Charles ("Pug") Ravenel Jr., 40. The son of a sheet-metal worker-from the poor side of a distinguished South Carolina family-Ravenel won scholarships to Exeter and Harvard (where he was quarterback of the football team). Then after seven successful years as a Wall Street investment banker, he returned in 1972 to his home state, started an investment firm and prepared...
...even Keefer: World War II with the original cast. The author began his story with what he calls a "prologue," The Winds of War, an 885-page novel published in 1971. In that book the action was carried on the square shoulders of a Navy career officer named Victor ("Pug") Henry, whose pre-Pearl Harbor experiences swept him through Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia and Churchill's Britain before the U.S. joined...
...global war one needs a global family, and Pug Henry's circle of relatives, friends, lovers-and relatives of friends and lovers-expands in this book to meet the need. Pug's immediate family is Navy all the weigh: at the Battle of Midway, Victor Henry commands the cruiser Northampton, while his son Warren is a dive-bomber pilot who helps to wound one of the Japanese carriers in that decisive victory at sea. Son Byron is in submarines. Daughter Madeline is in wartime show business, but she takes up with a young officer who just happens...
...SOUTH CAROLINA Charles "Pug" Ravenel '61 is posing the most serious threat to Thurmond in years. A native Charlestonian, Ravenel went from quarterbacking the Harvard football team to the Harvard Business School and on to Wall Street before returning home to run for governor. He won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1974 through an impressive media campaign that included an attack on the State Senate as a "den of thieves." But the State Supreme Court, in a highly questionable interpretation of the state residency requirement, took him off the ballot because he had not lived in South Carolina...