Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...particular favorite in our own office, and it may not be bragging too much to suggest that TIME invented the form. This is the preelection look of an American city, congressional district or state, in which in a brief space we look at two contenders deep in political combat, consider their personalities, quote their remarks, judge their style and assess their chances-all against a background of what currents of opinion are stirring among the voters. These stories, as our readers know, can be as terse and tight as a one-paragraph note, or as comprehensive as last week...
...crash, officially listed as an accident, brought the toll of U.S. war dead in South Viet Nam since last December to 27. Of them, 14 were killed in accidents "associated" with combat, 13 in action...
...money back. Not that the picture is a clinker. As Hollywood epics go, it goes well enough. It is long (3 hrs.), but it is never boring. Some of the skirmishes that flare up in the darkness make mighty exciting cinema. Some of the comic relief from combat-a paratrooper who falls from the skies beside a little old lady on her way to the outhouse, another paratrooper who plummets kerplop into a well-is witty and welcome. Some scenes, such as those of paratroopers still in their chute harnesses swinging lifeless from the battle-scarred trees, have a note...
...different story with the estimated 10,000 North Vietnamese combat troops and technicians who have been fighting with the Communist Pathet Lao. At the exit point set up at Nhommarath, in central Laos, the Pathet Lao has cooped up the I.C.C. inspectors in a fenced-in compound to keep them from checking on the withdrawal. With a straight face, the Pathet Lao commander said to the I.C.C.: "We've put up the fence to prevent wild buffalo from attacking...
Back to the Foxholes. ABC's two new battle shows are good ones. In Combat, a group of World War II infantrymen are working their way east from Normandy, fighting one hour per week. It has some of the dusty menace of A Walk in the Sun. Meanwhile, Gallant Men have landed at Salerno and are moving north through Italy. Roland La Starza, the heavyweight fighter who was decked by Rocky Marciano, makes a splendid soldier. There is plenty of bloodshed, but the worst is to come. By the end of the present season, when the Nazis have collapsed...