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...search of the real America, having decided beforehand that "to pass through the country like a tourist with a tape recorder and a journalist's notebook would simply prove worthless." Instead, Kremen went hitchhiking around, spending a few weeks as a factory worker, a few in college towns, a stint in the South and a time living with blacks. His intentions were purely noble, but he made one crucial error: He didn't leave behind his tape recorder and notebook, as he had promised, and as a consequence has published a chronicle of his travels purporting to explain what...
...White House Fellows, was in Viet Nam as an ARVN adviser in 1965-66 and again the next summer, when he collaborated on an Army "pacification" study. In the Pentagon in 1970, he helped refine the concept of an all-volunteer army. Last summer he finished a stint as commander of a battalion in Korea...
...House freshman, she brought suit against the Defense Department and the Air Force to stop the bombing in Cambodia but lost in the Supreme Court. A graduate of Radcliffe and Harvard Law School, Holtzman spent summers working on civil rights cases in Georgia and served a three-year stint as an assistant to former New York Mayor John Lindsay. She is now a member of the House Judiciary Committee...
...days as U.S. Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. After a brief stint in investment banking, Rumsfeld was elected Congressman from suburban Chicago's affluent North Shore in 1962, earned a reputation as a moderate conservative. In 1969 President Nixon persuaded him to give up a promising House career to direct the Office of Economic Opportunity. Appointed to NATO in 1973, he may be thinking of taking on Governor Daniel Walker...
...rescued Dark from oblivion was none other than Charles O. Finley. The first managerial stint for Finley lasted a year and a half before Dark was ousted for insubordination-he incensed Finley by refusing to fire a player for using obscenities in public that Dark had not overheard. From Kansas City, he went to Cleveland where he was once again dismissed. Among the reasons: poor press relations and an even poorer won-lost record...