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1. 2. the University of Paris and Miami University in

Oxford – Fletcher Knebel spent a year studying at

the University of Paris and graduated from Miami
University in Oxford, Ohio during 1934. 
3. the United States Navy - Knebel served in the United

States Navy during World War II, attaining the rank of

lieutenant.
4. 15 books – Fletcher Knebel wrote 15 books and all of

them are connected to politics.

5. China

6. Boston

7. Best-known novel – his (Fletcher Knebels) best-known

novel is Seven Days in May (1962, co-authored with

Charles W. Bailey), about an attempted military coup in
the United States.
8. John F. Kennedy
9. in 1972?
Charles Bailey went to China in 1972 with American president
Nixon
10. the rank of lieutenant Knebel served in the United
States Navy during World War II, attaining the rank of
Lieutenant.
11. best-seller list in early 1963 ? - 11) “7 days in May”

written by Fletcher Knebel and Charles Bailey. It was at

the top of The New York Times’s best-seller list in early
1963 and was made into a movie, with Burt Lancaster,
Kirk Douglas and Fredric March, in 1964.
12. the practice of ombudsman to every newspaper - years
after leaving The Tribune, Mr. Bailey advocated that
every paper adopt, as The Tribune had, the practice of
employing an ombudsman, a readers’ representative to
complaints about news coverage. He argued that it
would ultimately serve the newspapers’ self-interest.
13. four times from 1935 to 1985

14. “No High Ground” - A non fiction book written by

Charles W Bailey and Fletcher Knebel. It is the Inside

Story of the Man Who Planned And Dropped the First
Atomic Bomb.
15. the leading causes of statistics: Fletcher Knebel is the

source of the quote: "Smoking is one of the leading

causes of statistics."
16. Candidates

17. NPR

18. World War II - Fletcher Knebel served in the United

States Navy during World War II, attaining the rank

of lieutenant.
19. Political fiction is the genre of literature in which both

Knebel and Bailey worked.

20. President Richard Nixon – Fletcher Knebel went to the

China with American President Richard Nixon in 1972

21. Minneapolis Star Tribune – Mr. Bailey began his

career as a journalist at The Minneapolis Star Tribune

22. the Manhattan Project

23. Ohioana Book Award in 1966

24. the top 1 of The New York Time’s - 7 days in May -

was a great success, reaching number one on the New

York Times bestseller list, and was made into a
successful movie with the same name (1964).
25. as The Tribune’s Washington bureau chief

26. a top editor of

Charles Bailey worked for the Minneapolis Tribune, serving as its
editor from 1972 to 1982.
27. Charles Waldo Bailey’s father was
secretary to the corporation and board of overseers at Ha
rvard University
28. Crimson newspaper? - Charles Waldo Bailey

graduated in 1946 from the private Phillips Exeter

Academy in New Hampshire and in 1950 from Harvard
University, where he wrote for the Crimson newspaper.
29. quote from the text below – « Smoking is one of the

leading causes of statistics»

30. 1984-1987

31. his family moved constantly. Fletcher Knebel was

born in Dayton, Ohio, but his family moved constantly,

so Fletcher relocated a number of times during his youth.
32. 1962: In 1962, Fletcher Knebel and fellow writer

Charles W. Bailey published Seven Days In May, a

fictional account wherein the military overthrows the
President.
33. Camp David

34. Cowles Publications - Fletcher Knebel spent 20 years working

for newspapers, eventually becoming the political columnist for Cowles
Publications.

35. Potomac Fever

36. protest against staffing cuts Mr. Bailey was a top
editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, but quitted in
1982 in order to protest the staffing cuts.
37. Convention