Word: commands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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News Editor Edwin Goodpaster relayed instructions and guidance on the needs of the editors. And Hugh Sidey, Washington bureau chief since January 1969 and our chief President watcher since 1960, assumed the baton of overall command...
...well-ordered life. He opened his house to newsmen and treated them with his customary Southern affability. But then, as the opposition to his appointment grew, he reasserted a claim to privacy. Members of his family and intimates helped provide protection by setting up a 15-hour-a-day command-post type of operation to shield him from visitors and telephone callers, and telling all but his closest friends that the judge was unavailable. "He became something of a recluse," commented a friend, Malcolm Johnson. "He was a prisoner in his own home...
...caught the disease from the children of friends. Dismayed NASA officials immediately ordered blood tests of Apollo 13's first-line crew members, who had come in contact with Duke during several preflight conferences. Both Astronauts Jim Lovell and Fred Haise were found to be immune to rubella. Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly was not; his blood lacked the necessary antibodies...
...that go reeling through the world of his characters - it will be good to have a "message" that definite and unequivocal to hang on to. Fuck you. And you. And you. And you. In this book, the words are not meant as a challenge, or a threat, or a command. They are the only words a black man can scream out once he has stopped his whoring to the white world, once he has chosen "to see only blackness," and "to live right out of his insides." The novel itself is a 2000 mile an hour trip through...
...clectrical failure in bay four of the service module has left the command module without power...