Word: schoolboys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moments later, two swift blips rose on the radar screens-Soviet MIGs in deadly pursuit. The slower-moving blip that marked the RB-66 leaped suddenly into wrenching, zigzag evasive maneuvers, four minutes later disappeared from the screen well within East German terri tory. On the ground, a German schoolboy watched the last moments of the fight: "The fighter closed on the bomber from behind and fired on it. The American plane burst into flames. I saw a fireball on one wing. The crew of three came out by parachute. The first two came out together. The third one came...
...scholars-was wrong. It is a "myth," says the Cornell University historian, that Hamilton was a "fabulous reactionary" with views alien to the U.S. environment. Indeed, his "works and words have been more consequential than those of any other American in shaping the Constitution under which we live." Every schoolboy knows that Hamilton was the archfoe of the democratic Jefferson and the archfriend of aristocracy. But few Americans today realize that it was Hamilton who first elaborated the doctrine of judicial review, pointing up the power of the courts to nullify all laws that, in his words, were "contrary...
Swimming to School. A tiny, wizened vegetarian and teetotaler who stands only 5 ft. 2 in. and weighs a mere 105 Ibs., Shastri* has never been out of India. As a schoolboy he was so poor that he swam the Ganges daily with his books strapped to his head because he lacked boat fare. During India's struggle for independence, Shastri spent a total of seven years in jail, once fasted so long that his weight dwindled to 72 Ibs. He entered the Cabinet in 1952 as Minister for Railways and Transport, a decade later became Home Minister...
...anyone who has picked up a sports page during the past year knows that Archie is more than an Athlete. He is also a Great Guy. The Norman Rockwell schoolboy athletic hero come true. The All-American...
Waugh wrote it during 7½ weeks in 1916 while he was waiting for his army commission. It was a time, he recalls, when women gave white feathers to men not in uniform and every schoolboy dreamed of going to France and getting a mild "blighty"-a wound that would send him back to England uncrippled but with a gold stripe on his sleeve. Loom of Youth told only what all but the most naive schoolmasters already knew-that homosexuality was not uncommon in a system that "herded together monastically children of thirteen and men of eighteen for two-thirds...