Word: ranged
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...telephone rang at the desk of Captain A.W. ("Hap") Chandler Jr., commander of the Miramar Naval Air Station in San Diego. "Hey, Hap, what are you doing about flight jackets down there?" asked the skipper of another Navy facility. "You letting them wear them around the base?" Replied Chandler: "Sure. I've got to, since I do it my self." A former colleague of Zumwalt's in Saigon, Chandler is so enthusiastic about the freer atmosphere under The Big Z that he tries to keep a step ahead. He relaxed the rules on hair and beards before any Z-gram...
...ASSEMBLED a list of about 50 questions, and passed them on to a Hughes aide. About 48 hours later, the phone rang at 11 a.m., and the flat, nasal voice at the other end identified itself as that of Howard Hughes. That started weeks of titillation, intrigue, maneuvering, exhaustion and sheer damn foolishness. We were on a first-name basis after the second call, but his calls never seemed to have an end or a beginning. They were, in essence, monologues, in which he made a case for holding off the story until new financing for TWA could be arranged...
...Frank is exhausted. He went to bed early, and I think he should get a good night's rest, don't you?" "Good heavens, yes, Mrs. McCulloch, and I'm sorry to have been so thoughtless. A pleasant good night. Rest well." Of course the phone rang again precisely 30 minutes later. Instantly, Hughes was apologetic. In the press of all the things he was doing, he had simply forgotten the earlier conversation. Good night again...
...F.D.R., he reeled off a long list of the ills besetting the nation ("in all the states of the United States there are undernourished men and women and boys and girls") and concluded with the Kennedy-like assertion that therefore "the business of this country is unfinished," the rafters rang more loudly than they had for any of Senator Byrd's polyloquence. And so they did again when Mr. McGovern asked acidly of President Nixon's veto of the education bill, "if it's inflationary to invest dollars in young minds, why then is it not inflationary to build...
...controversial safety came on the game's last play. Both sides had agreed to play until the noon bell rang, but a jet flew overhead as the bell sounded, and though the managers were able to hear it, they did not alert the CRIMSON. The safety came five minutes later...