Word: bivouacs
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...medium, 50-ton tanks, 76 howitzers, 429 armored personnel carriers. Stockpiled during the 1961 Berlin crisis, the equipment has been sitting idle ever since. At Kaiserslautern three unbroken columns of tanks, guns and ammunition stretch caterpillar-like for two miles along an abandoned highway. Later, in forested bivouac areas ablaze with the golds and russets of autumn, the troops set up pup tents, took hot showers in tents equipped with gas-powered water heaters, wolfed down mountainous helpings of chicken, turkey, potatoes, ice cream, crisp red apples, bread and fresh butter at improvised field kitchens...
Accompanying Secretary of State Dean Rusk on his Russian trip, Western newsmen last week got their first glimpse of Nikita Khrushchev's seaside hideaway. It made the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port look like a Boy Scout bivouac...
Four miles down the red clay road, Morfett discovered a second bivouac, "swarming with thousands of Russians. Some were dressed in physical-training gear and were doing calisthenics. Others wore greenish fatigues. Two teams were playing volley ball." Between neat rows of dun-colored tents, Morfett caught glimpses of field kitchens and chow lines, and beyond sat "military vehicles-lorries, trucks with mobile radar units, armored cars. Some of the trucks still bore Russian-language lettering." Ringing the camp were Cuban soldiers manning freshly dug anti-aircraft emplacements...
...complained that a Kennedy decorating job consists mainly of replacing slip covers and turning rugs so that the bad spots do not show. Each house abounds in roomy, overstuffed and not necessarily stylish chairs, because all the Kennedys seem not so much to sit in chairs as to bivouac in them. Since most members of the family are prodigious readers, reading lamps are scattered everywhere. Another must in every room is an electric clock. "I always insist on this," says Mother Rose Kennedy, "because then no one has an excuse for being late for meals." One real sign of luxury...
Come early, and we'll treat you to four days and four nights of bivouac in a local state forest, where you will sleep under the stars, share your Army rations with our insect hosts, and observe our training day, which runs from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. But don't bring any party paraphernalia. A pup tent gets kind of crowded when a hi-fi set and a couple of deck chairs are installed...