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...Wall Street by the Viet Nam Veterans Against the War. Smack in front of the New York Stock Exchange, a dozen veterans in fatigue jackets passed out leaflets next to a big white van showing a film of American atrocities in Viet Nam. John Kerry, a former gunboat skipper who won a Silver Star in Viet Nam and was wounded three times, read a prepared statement: "We are all of us in this country guilty for having allowed the war to go on. We only want this country to realize that it cannot try a Calley for something which generals...
...SKIPPER CAMPBELL, 27, of Rayville, La., was driving toward Inverness on State Highway 49-W when the storm hit. "I think I'm a miracle," says Campbell. "It started raining real bad, and the wind was really blowing. I got into town and had to pull off the road. I pulled down the window and heard a drone like a million bumblebees come...
...people of Inverness were fortunate that Skipper Campbell survived the storm. As soon as it passed, he left his car, rushed to the nearby house, dug through the rubble and discovered the elderly black couple huddled under a table, unhurt...
Extra Poundage. Less than an hour later, the three Apollo 14 astronauts boarded the helicopter carrier New Orleans, stepped inside a mobile quarantine van and began their 2½-day journey back to Houston. "We have had a terrific flight," said Apollo 14's skipper, Alan Shepard. He and his fellow travelers were in high spirits and apparently good health, and doctors later discovered that Shepard had actually gained weight (1 Ib.) during his 941,825-mile journey. Indeed, the astronauts' condition-and the fact that no alien organisms had been found on the Apollo...
...time, some of Hoover's numerous critics dismissed his testimony as a grandstand play designed only to help him win funds for 1,000 extra FBI agents. Thomas Buck, 54, a writer and longtime friend of the Berrigans', accompanied Representative William Anderson, a Tennessee Democrat and former skipper of the submarine Nautilus, on a visit to Danbury shortly thereafter. "Dan said there was absolutely nothing to it," Buck reported. "Phil, who is given to putting things in a more earthy way, said it was all bullshit...