Word: unraveler
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...become commonplace to say that the Viet Nam War was the most thoroughly covered in history. The cost in correspondents remains shocking: 45 killed, 18 missing. Author Knightley has high praise for those professionals who not only had to unravel the official lies and distortions but also had to fight Stateside editors who trusted Washington's optimistic version of events...
...faceted. Freshmen need basic information; proctors provide it. Freshmen are often confused about their academic aspirations and frantically insecure about the social expectations they've set for themselves; proctors can give them support and encouragement. Freshmen get into unbelievable tangles with roommates they didn't choose; proctors can help unravel the knots. Freshmen have just left the security of their families, some of them for the first time in their lives; proctors often become surrogate parents. Beyond these obvious functions there may be something more. Every year Harvard admits 1600 new members about whom it knows little. They have...
Alan Kroboth, 27, was an American prisoner of war in Viet Nam for "275 days, 14 hours, 36 minutes and 14 seconds." Shortly after he returned home to New Jersey to a hero's welcome and a beaming wife in 1973, his marriage began to unravel. Now Kroboth has joined the rapidly growing ranks of ex-P.O.W.s who have become ex-husbands since they returned home...
Thirty-two FBI offices had helped unravel the crime. Ironically, it was the red-herring reference to the Weatherman that brought the FBI into the case at the outset. The alleged conspiracy sounds something like a Mannix plot on TV-with a few Fellini-esque wrinkles. According to the indictment, Moeller paid $50,000 in company funds to David Bubar, 47, a trim, wavy-haired Baptist minister and self-proclaimed clairvoyant from Memphis who purports to have foreseen a variety of specific deaths, illnesses and other disasters. Bubar met Moeller about ten years ago, became his spiritual guru and ultimately...
Their story, said Jacobsen, began to unravel when Connally remembered that some of the bills he had paid back had been circulated after 1971. (They bore the signature of George Shultz, Connally's successor as Treasury Secretary.) The pair tried to replace them with older bills but, if Jacobsen's story is true, Connally somehow messed up. When...