He volunteered as an Angel Flights pilot well into his 90s.
Spies
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Led the daring rescue of six U.S. diplomats from Iran in 1980.
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The humblest 007 may also have been the most important.
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One of the Allies’ most decorated servicewomen of World War II, Nancy Wake was a key figure in the French resistance.
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When 10 alleged Russian spies were recently arrested before being deported in a spy swap arranged by the CIA, many found the events anachronistic, a throwback to a previous era. …
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Who was Gertrude Bell? She did as much to shape the Middle East over the past century as any man.
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Virtually any American TV viewer alive in the 1970s or ’80s remembers Sorrell Booke as the greedy, corrupt, and still somehow lovable Boss Hogg on “The Dukes of Hazzard.”
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Children’s author, writer of spooky adult fiction, TV host, ace fighter pilot and inventor Roald Dahl died 20 years ago today. Here are 20 facts about his life and work.