Word: boies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long since departed. Villagers who survived the harsh pre-assault bombardment by government forces shakily reported that the Communists had pulled out three days earlier. A few, at least, stuck around, as the South Vietnamese learned to their dismay later in the week. Recombing a maze of tunnels in Boi Loi forest, army patrols suddenly found themselves under accurate but sporadic machine-gun fire. Ten Vietnamese soldiers died, and a helicopter carrying wounded away was knocked down, killing eleven more. History's hugest helicopter operation netted only two confirmed Communist guerrillas, three rifles, 15 grenades and a battered motor...
...days later Sellers holds a private screening for some of the boys. "That's all for todye," he says briskly as the show concludes. "Nex' week we'll 'ave a prowgram uv eddikytional an' trynin' films, startin' wiv Rififi an' fullowed boi a discussion uv what we've learned. But first -gaow in an' get them jools...
...flannel liberals who man the New Frontier. McCormack's liberalism is instinctive and emotional, culled from personal experience as a member of the "deserving poor." He has little use for the liberalism derived largely from books and faculty-club discussions. Such House liberals as Missouri's Richard Boi ling and New Jersey's Frank Thompson regard McCormack as a hack politician who is all too ready to compromise modern liberal principles. Replies John McCormack: "I'm a progressive who believes that the road to progress is, in moments of contest, reasonable compromise...