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...went to Dallas with J.F.K., to China with Nixon, to Moscow's Red Square with Ronald Reagan. Yet he returned as often as he could to his hometown of Greenfield, Iowa, where his entry-level job in journalism was sweeping the floor at his family's beloved newspaper, the Adair County Free Press (still running strong, by the way, with brother Edwin as publisher...
...possessions later, after sophomore Steven Williams muffed a punt—his third botched punt in two weeks—Davis once again picked apart the Harvard secondary, completing a 25-yard pass to Shaun Adair to tie the game...
...when Lobby Day rolled around, something happened. The best illustration of what happened that day is the story of Roswell Senator Rod Adair. Adair is known as a conservative Republican. Just days before Lobby Day, Adair voted against the immigrant education bill in committee. But after meeting with a group of students from his area, Adair switched his vote. Adair told the Albuquerque Journal, immediately after Lobby Day, “My own constituents convinced...
...Daredevil Fire Fighter As our Milestone on Paul (Red) Adair noted [Aug. 23], the fire fighter was unequaled in his specialty of extinguishing dangerous oil-field conflagrations. More than 40 years ago, as a huge fire burned in the French Sahara, we described Adair's expertise...
...fire in the] recently discovered Gassi Touil natural-gas field ... would, if it went unchecked, burn for the next century ... To avert this economic tragedy, the field's owners ... have called in daredevil Texan Paul Adair ... Flame-haired "Red" Adair learned his rare trade in 16 years with tough old Myron Kinley, dean emeritus of oil fire fights [and has] set up his own company ... Already this year, the burly Adair and his two apprentices ... have tamed 50 wells in Bahrain, Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala, Venezuela, Canada and the U.S. With an affluence known to no other firemen, Adair...