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...Lorraine team of Zemeckis and Gale). Set around Los Angeles right after Pearl Harbor, the film shows what might have happened if panicky Californians had convinced themselves that they were under Japanese at tack. The frantic characters come in all ages and types. There are jitterbugging kids at a USO dance (Treat Williams, Bobby DiCicco), trigger-happy soldiers and pilots (Dan Aykroyd, Warren Gates, John Be lushi), middle-aged suburbanites (Ned Beatty, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton), and stray German, American and Japanese commanding officers (Christopher Lee, Robert Stack, Toshiro Mifune). Such oldtime Hollywood character actors as Lionel Stander, Elisha Cook...
...undergraduate at Princeton. During the next half-century, the quiet, precise businessman oversaw much of the firm's diversification, its expansion into 23 countries, and as chief executive officer (1948-63), watched annual sales double to $ 1.3 billion. An active philanthropist, Firestone served as chairman of the USO for 15 years and as president of the Firestone Foundation since...
...could almost imagine the appropriate fade-ins and outs when my mother spoke so enthusiastically of serving Sunday brunch at the local USO, of the constant stream of boys that could be met on the endless series of trains she traveled between Boston, New York and Maine, of the year she spent in Washington-she tells of that too-haltingly translating Rumanian for some hastily assembled war office into a coded English she understood even less...
...after Priest was sentenced, a South Carolina civilian court convicted the staff of the first antiwar coffee house set up to encourage dissenting soldiers Three young radicals had operated "U.F.O." (a play on both Unidentified Flying Objects and the USO), near the Army's Fort Jackson. They were found guilty of operating a public nuisance, a misdemeanor for which State Circuit Judge E. Harry Agnew sentenced each defendant to six years in prison...
...Helms; and Lincoln Chafee, son of Navy Secretary John Chafee. Avant-Garde suggests that "all ten of their fathers resign immediately and nominate their children as their successors." Another Republican stalwart with a dissenter in the family is Ronald Reagan, whose singer daughter Maureen returned from a 35-day USO tour of Viet Nam convinced that we should no longer have a military victory...