Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...read the book eventually; though not quite as good as the films, it reveals that endearingly confused and noble visage as a confused and noble man. He never punched a photographer and he never ran for President; he just humbly played the roles he was suited to do. "Deep in his heart he hankers to be an artist of some sort," writes Alec Guinness of himself, "but he is only an actor...
...Wall" was just a 10-ft. high chicken-wire fence. A Sarasota Sports Committee ad decorated the right field fence. And players ran wind sprints across right field during the game...
Going into the last four races of the day, the Crimson was tied for fifth. But the sailors ran into trouble, and only managed to score 53 points. Cold rain and light variable breezes affected the last day of competition...
...wall within is a 4 ft.-by-3 ft. plaque that reads "George Arntzen Doole (1909-1985). Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Board of Directors of Air America Inc., Air Asia Company Limited, Civil Air Transport Company Limited." The plaque is the only memorial to a man who created and ran what was once one of the largest airlines in the free world. The airline was known by half a dozen different names, sometimes just as the "Shy Airline," and it flew where few tourists wanted to go. Passengers were often obliged to exit by parachute...
Officially, the CIA says it has no record that Doole ever worked there, but among old agency hands, he is a legend. Operating out of a small, nondescript office on Connecticut Avenue, he founded and ran a far-flung network of airlines that the agency used to carry out its covert operations all over the world. Owned by a holding company, the Pacific Corp., that was itself a CIA front, Doole's empire included Air America, Civil Air Transport, Southern Air Transport, Air Asia and dozens of small puddle-jumper lines. Together, at their peak in the mid '60s, these...