Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freed prisoners was Lieut. Robert Francis Frishman, a 29-year-old Navy pilot, who had been shot down over Hanoi on Oct. 24, 1967, and had barely managed to eject from his stricken F-4C Phantom fighter-bomber because of a serious injury to his right arm. A second pilot, Air Force Captain Wesley L. Rumble, 26, had gone down over Quang Binh province on April 28, 1966. The third man, Seaman Douglas B. Hegdahl, 23, had been rescued and captured by North Vietnamese fishermen in the Gulf of Tonkin on April 5, 1967, after he had fallen overboard from...
...other problem by forming two new groups of advisers. One will be a Washington-based circle of generalists with whom Muskie will meet, perhaps as often as once a week, to help stimulate his thinking and to keep him up to date on a variety of national concerns. The second group will include lawyers, economists and an assortment of professors around the country who will do research and writing chores for him. The purpose, says Ed Muskie, is "to educate Ed Muskie...
...precondition that while in Bucharest they refrain from polemics against other Communist nations. Foreign guests were whisked about in gleaming black Mercedes-Benz limousines, which have replaced Soviet-made Chaikas as the official car. The fleet serves as a reminder that Ceauşescu has made West Germany his second-largest trading partner after Russia. Breaking with Communist tradition, Ceauşescu allowed newsmen, including one Mao-suited Chinese reporter, to sit in the gallery and witness the full proceedings. Delegates soon found...
...Mark Twain. Despite the fact that the Federal Government had already begun to slip out of the hands of people--something that would-be Ralph Nadars like Francis Adams knew only too well--Americans still chose to treat their national leaders as if they were only extensions of their second-rate counterparts back home. But, during this century, Washington has grown so complex that mayors now must have advisors to learn how to cope with it. Alan Drury's melodramas soon gave way to the Burdick-Fletcher-Knebel potboilers that always had Washington a button away from nuclear destruction--unbeknownst...
...risking everything he has secured for himself, has been a classic inquiry through all literature, but it is particularly relevant for America today. The common fury in the hearts of the disenchanted can extend beyond Black Power and campus rebellion into suburbia, and farther. In David Shetzline's second novel, that rage explodes during a forest fire in the timber country of Oregon. Before the fire is smothered by a snowstorm, it has scorched the lives of several middle-aged American males...