Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Frequently I saw advisers adapt their opinions to what they believed President Kennedy and later, President Johnson wished to hear." There were two cardinal tenets I We are doing the right thing? We are doing it well When the China experts with three names apiece--John Carter Vincent, John Stewart Service indicated that the Chinese Nationalists were losing and only a rapprochement with the Communists could prevent Chiang Kai-snek's defeat they were booted out of office as traitors When during the Cuban missile crisis Adlai Stevenson suggested that the United States remove from Turkey its obsolete missiles (which...
...went back to that sorry evening a year before when he had made a similar pilgrimage to New Haven Yale had been favored then but that damn kid Crone, the quarterback that Carm Cozza was supposed to have convinced to come to Yale, had passed the Eli defenders silly. Stewart had had a cool hundred on that game, even though he never expected his Harvard counterpart to show up. For all he knew, the Harvard guy was still out there with the Navy, steaming around on a rusting bird farm and arguing Ivy football with Shack the Rack...
...gone very nicely at first. Brian Dowling had shown up, as had Chuck Mercein, Mike Pyle, Brad Lee--all the immortals. It was a regular reunion. The Harvard guy showed up, too, around 9:30 p.m., and tapped Stewart on the shoulder. It was like those posters you see in the Naval station exchange, where the icy hand of Death descends upon the clavicle of those who drink then drive. Stewart never had to turn around. He just reached into his pocket, produced a crumpled, beet-soaked check, and signed CHARLES KING STEWART. It was that simple...
...Stewart cringed just thinking about it, as he pulled away from the toll barriers at Ripley, New York. This time, it would all be different. Champagne knew that the Harvard guy was out of the Navy. He had sent him a copy of his separation papers. He just hoped that the Harvard guy's bank account was in good shape. The names Jauron, Doyle, Hennings, Green and Perschel were each worth about $20, Champagne figured...
...never been like this in the old days, when Champagne's roommate. Brian Dowling, had been running the Yale varsity. No one every took away Stewart's lunch money then. Champagne made a perfunctory check of his wallet, saw that everything was in order, and began humming something about marching down the field. This time, it would be different...