Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...school of politics, O'Connor, 56, is a smiling, pleasant fellow with wiry good looks and a wholesome family life (one wife, three sons). Born in New York City of immigrant parents, he worked his way through college (Niagara University) and law school as a lifeguard and merchant seaman. As a lawyer, he got some national attention for his conscientious - and ultimately successful - defense of Christopher Balestrero, a musician who was the victim of a mistaken-identity arrest...
...that a man matching a description given by the lone survivor, Philippine Exchange Nurse Corazon Amurao, had left two bags of clothing there. A National Maritime Union hiring hall is located only a few yards from the nurses town house, and detectives, surmising that the murderer might be a seaman, astutely checked the union office. There, William Neill, local N.M.U. secretary, sifted through the files and came up with a coin-machine photo of Speck-an ex-convict and sometime merchant mariner-pinned to a work application...
...Best in the Army." To fill the new post, Johnson screened 21 candidates recommended by his field commanders. Wooldridge was summoned from Viet Nam, where he had been sergeant major of the 1st Infantry Division (The Big Red One) whose C.O., Major General Jonathan O. Seaman, says flatly that Wooldridge is "the best soldier in the Army." Articulate and tough-minded, the Texas-reared sergeant vows that he will not "pester General Johnson with the complaints of people who only think they have problems"-but intimates that he has views of his own and will press them...
Stealing Second Base. Continental's celerity is largely the work of its longtime (since 1938) President Robert Forman Six, a onetime merchant seaman who built the airline up from a puddle jumper. Six, 58, is a theatrical sort whose three marriages-to a California socialite, Actresses Ethel Merman and Audrey Meadows, his present wife-created a standard gag at Continental: "Bob is batting .500. Three for Six." With a flair for gaudy promotion, he has equipped his golden-tailed jets with golden toilet seats. His public-relations men once hired two dozen dwarfs, dressed them in golden space suits...
...bespectacled young man-and a true son of the U.S. middle class. His parents have lived in the same six-room house on North Earle Avenue in Rosemead for 25 years. There they raised their three children-Gary; Jimmy, 21, a Navy Reserve seaman aboard the aircraft carrier Oriskany (which left last week for Viet Nam); and Carol Ann, 20, a Cal State junior majoring in art. The father, William Wilson, 48, is a World War II Navy veteran and a partner in a window-shade manufacturing firm. He affords two cars (a 1957 Chevrolet station wagon...