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...small north Georgia town of Young Harris (pop. 310), where his father was president of a tiny Methodist college. Lance went to school in a four-room building. "Everybody liked him, even though his father was the president of the college " recalls Georgia's Lieut. Governor Zell Miller, who shared a double desk with Lance and has remained a good friend ever since. "It's really something to be that popular when the rest of the children in the class come to school in their one pair of overalls and only pair of brogan shoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Country Slicker | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

Perhaps the weirdest case in the KGB's history?and one of its dizziest triumphs?occurred in 1967, when three men stole a Sidewinder missile from a supposedly well-guarded NATO base at Zell and drove 300 miles along the autobahn to Krefeld with the 9½-ft. rocket sticking out a window. When their leader, Manfred Ramminger, inquired at the Düsseldorf airport about the best way to get a shipment to Moscow, KLM suggested air freight and Lufthansa assured him that nobody at the German customs office would bother about the contents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Spies: Foot Soldiers in an Endless War | 10/11/1971 | See Source »

...Endicott of Washington, Conn and East House (Fine Arts): Linda K. Hansen of Granby, Conn, and East House (Lingnisties and Japanese); Susan J. Schuman of New London. Conn, and East House (Fine Arts); Sarah T. Quisenberry of Highland Park, III, and East House (English); and Leah Zell Zuriff of Highland Park, III and North House (History...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phi Beta Kappa Elections | 6/11/1970 | See Source »

...MICHAEL P. ZELL Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 26, 1969 | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

Returning to Zell six months later, they clipped their way through a barbed-wire fence, broke into a storage shed and dragged out a Sidewinder missile. An air-to-air heat-seeking weapon used by American planes in Viet Nam, the Sidewinder is about 9½ ft. long and weighs 165 Ibs. Undaunted, the trio trundled the missile to their car in a wheelbarrow, broke the car's rear window to fit the rocket in, wrapped a rug around its protruding end, and drove more than 100 miles across West Germany to an undisclosed city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage: Mail-Order Missile | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

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