Word: trippers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officials is that the Soviets considered Holbrook an especially acute pest: he speaks perfect Russian and had made many friends among the Soviet military. The Soviets regard the dozen or so U.S. military attaches in Moscow as little more than spies anyway. Indeed, Holbrook and his unfortunate fellow tripper-Lieut. Colonel Thomas Spencer, still among the American officers who work out of the Moscow embassy-were headed toward a particularly sensitive area: Lvov, a Soviet military headquarters city only 40 miles from the Polish border...
Mike's first marriage lasted less than a year ("A round-tripper," he calls it. "In and out fast"). He and his second wife, Colleen Sterns, have a son, Cameron, 2, the only Reagan grandson. Mike also campaigns for his father on weekends, mostly in California. "Sometimes," he says, "I argue with him about his style. I tell him he should come across strong more often. It takes a lot to make Dad angry, but when...
Mark Bingham hit the longest shot of the day--a two-run round-tripper to deep centerfield--but Captain Charlie Santos-Buch knocked home what proved to be the gamewinner with a three-run double in the eighth...