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Perot didn't bother with Carter. He sent a squadron of company employees led by a former colonel over to Iran. One of the men, an Iranian employee, incited a mob to storm the prison. They successfully freed all 13,000 prisoners, making it the largest jailbreak in history...
Most of the participants in the conference, which was held for the first time last year, are from the Department of Defense, in positions ranging from a submarine squadron trainer to the chief of atmospheric prediction in the Air Force. All of the officials are either military colonels or hold equivalent civilian rank...
...shooting had ended. Baker, his orders home tucked in his tunic, took a repaired Spad up for a test flight. It crashed, and "the finest damn flier in the air," as his fellow aviators called him, entered the record books for the final time: the last man in his squadron to be killed...
Less distinct, and less familiar, is the squadron of players who mostly watched this year. The heaviest burden is on them, and on McLaughlin, who says he will need help from the Harvard administration to bring the program up to its potential...
Federal Express invented the present overnight delivery system. Both Emery and Airborne for decades had shipped freight on commercial airliners. But Frederick Smith, 40, dreamed up the idea of combining a squadron of planes with a fleet of delivery vans. As legend has it, Smith first proposed the plan in a 1965 term paper that earned him a C in an economics course at Yale. After two tours in Viet Nam, one as a Marine pilot, Smith decided to use a $10 million inheritance to try out his idea, and founded Federal...