Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ARVN, such victories are quite a change. It was not so many months ago that General William Westmoreland felt obliged to pass the word down the U.S. chain of command: if you can't say something good about the ARVN, don't say anything at all. The resulting silence was almost as damaging to the ARVN as the heavy shellfire of criticism it replaced. Of late, however, the ARVN has been doing some pretty effective firing of its own on the battlefields. Its performance has enabled U.S. officers to talk about the ARVN again, this time in terms...
...past ten months, Aretha has reeled off a spectacular string of record hits: three singles (I Never Loved a Man, Respect, Baby, I Love You) that sold more than 1,000,000 copies apiece, an album that topped $1,000,000 in sales, and a new single release (Chain of Fools) that has sold more than 900,000 copies and is going at the rate of 75,000 a week...
...Chain-smoking Russian Pamir filter cigarettes, he threw a candlelight dinner for correspondents of the Daily Express, at which he blithely denounced such Western institutions as "the expense-account lunch and the English Channel" He poured vodka, wine and brandy at the Minsk Hotel and "a number of restaurants" for a visiting science correspondent from London's Sunday Times. And, most satisfying of all, Moscow's own Izvestia ran a frontpage interview with him appropriately titled: "Hello, Comrade Philby...
...intelligence reports and checking reconnaissance slides projected on an 8-ft.-by-10-ft. screen. He has authority on his own to strike at some 200 existing targets in North Viet Nam. When his intelligence turns up new ones he would like to hit, the request goes up the chain of command to CINCPAC in H waii or, if it is a particularly sensitive target, to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon, the Secretary of Defense or even the White House. In any case, the yes or no comes back within hours. Momyer makes no secret...
COOL HAND LUKE. Sadistic guards are unable to shake the sang-froid of a cocky chain-gang prisoner (Paul Newman), who wins the respect of hostile fellow prisoners, until he is finally beaten into groveling for mercy...