Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forth just a few feet over the sun-scorched rice fields, sorting out their targets like cowboys cutting steers from a herd. On one recent mission, the desperate Reds tried to lob hand grenades into the open side doors of the low-circling choppers. When two Hueys tried to box in and capture a fleeing Red guerrilla, he suddenly wheeled and headed straight for them, a hand grenade in each hand. A burst of gunfire from the choppers cut him down; both grenades exploded beneath his body. From the door of a grass hut, a guerrilla blazed away...
...still running strong, and is pulling in added profits every week ($415,000 so far). But it does not appear in the Times's analysis because it did not open this season. For another example, How to Succeed in Business was left out of the Times's box score altogether, although it has earned nearly $700,000 in this season alone...
...excellence (a Clio, named for the muse of history, is a slim gold statuette that could be the result of an affair between an Oscar and an Emmy). Then there were maybe a dozen canonizations-a ceremony raising selected older commercials to the status of "Classics." For example, that box of Tide that used to stand under the cypress tree on the Monterey Peninsula is now in the hall of fame with Willie the Penguin, The Marlboro Man, and the yellow that went for Pepsodent...
...initiated 14 months ago, and NBC's Russian-speaking Associate Producer Lucy Jarvis went to Moscow to negotiate. The Russians were agreeable, even though their own TV network has never been permitted to make a similar documentary. Khrushchev approved, but others balked at details. Lucy Jarvis had a box of homemade brownies with her. She passed them around. After that the Soviets drooled whenever the brownies were mentioned and conceded points in order to get at the box again...
...chief competitor, the U.S.'s Jim Beatty, a 3-min. 56.3-sec. miler, with a scornful shrug: "This Beatty doesn't hold any decent record at all." He snorted at the suggestion that Beatty's teammates from the Los Angeles Track Club might try to box him in during the crucial run to the tape. "Let them try," said Snell. "Maybe it will make me run better...