Word: ambushings
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...companies of northwestern Colombia, the Motilon Indians of the jungle-tangled mountains are an industrial hazard. The Motilones (mo-tee-loan-es) ambush trucks, shoot 6-ft. arrows through the oilmen's tents-and sometimes through the oilmen. What is worse, they give the oilworkers' union a hard-to-answer argument for extra hazard...
...Rita. Prince and Cucuface set off on a cheerful pilgrim's progress from Paris to the Riviera. Their delicate palates and foxy noses are proof against phony vintage wines; their false humility endears them to the wealthy, and their aristocratic hauteur terrifies the bandits who lurk in ambush about their tables, i.e., "doorman, door-opener, coat-hander, coat-taker, inside-door opener, up-the-stairs-pointer, director, headwaiter, assistant headwaiter . . . captain, waiter and bus boy." Lounging on luxurious hotel terraces, they nod to "Ali, Rita and Schiaparelli"; sunk in sofas "soft as a mudbath," they regale each other with...
Last week, Gurkha jungle fighters, acting on an informer's tip, set an ambush in the mountainous jungle. Into it walked Manap Jepun carrying a Sten gun. A fusillade of shots brought him down...
...feet up on the fells. Meanwhile, though the H.T.A. tries to prohibit betting after the first 15 minutes of trailing, the bookies continued intoning odds and grabbing money. The H.T.A.'s concern is understandable. In the past, nobblers (English version of U.S. fixers) have been known to ambush a favorite, or give a longshot an autoborne boost along the trail. Other nobblers, working hand in glove with bookies, have been jailed for relaying information, via walkie-talkie radio, from observation points along the trail...
...killed by a whisper." One day last week a whisper reached the Suffolk Regiment's "B" Company that Communists were in the vicinity of Ulu Selangor. Next morning a party of three armed and uniformed male Communists and two women Communists walked into a British ambush on a hilltop rubber plantation. One woman, surprised, pulled a grenade from her blouse, flung it at the British and fled. British bullets brought down the others, among them Communist Commander Long Pin, No. 1 terrorist of North Selangor with a price of $8,000 on his head. British High Commissioner Sir Gerald...