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...once worked with Bat Masterson in Dodge City. By 1915 he was directing westerns, which in those days often starred such authentic outlaws as Al Jennings and Emmett Dalton, last of the legendary family gang. Tilghman was on location in Chandler, Okla., when word came that a wild bunch headed by Henry Starr (Belle's nephew) had robbed a bank in Stroud, 17 miles away. The director dropped his camera, grabbed his gun and rode off in pursuit of the miscreants, capturing one "Alibi Joe" Davis before resuming work on his picture. The incident was typical...
...that October afternoon Nelson was far from alone in that single wonderful second when he realized that this "bunch of young kids that love to play baseball," as Tom Seaver described them, were goin...
Just a few days before that, Carter gathered a bunch of Congressmen and women around him and talked about how the U.S. margin of power had begun to decline in Kennedy's time, about his idea that in adjusting to the new realities we had to rely more on trade, our religious heritage and human rights. Those who listened were impressed with the sincerity of the President and his collection of facts about people and places. But what did not add up was how this country was going to move beyond the disappointments in Iran and the Israeli-Egyptian...
...anybody's national life under any circumstances, then we can't do anything about the situation in the Middle East, and it is doomed to failure." Helms claimed that the tendency to rule out action in advance was why "so many people regard [Administration officials] as a bunch of beginners. You don't tip your hand before you play...
Added Akins: "It would make it more difficult for the House of Saud, for example, if we had a bunch of gunboats tootling around the Persian Gulf. The only reaction [among Saudi subjects] would be: 'Aha! You see, these boys are in the pockets of the Americans. The Americans are pushing them around, and these people have...