Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the weirdest case in the KGB's history?and one of its dizziest triumphs?occurred in 1967, when three men stole a Sidewinder missile from a supposedly well-guarded NATO base at Zell and drove 300 miles along the autobahn to Krefeld with the 9½-ft. rocket sticking out a window. When their leader, Manfred Ramminger, inquired at the Düsseldorf airport about the best way to get a shipment to Moscow, KLM suggested air freight and Lufthansa assured him that nobody at the German customs office would bother about the contents...
...through, the CIA, support the right-wing army based in Southern Laos which marched North and drove the neutralist government from Vientiane. Boun Oum was named Prime Minister of the new pro-U.S. government, which then received U.S. arms and advisors in its civil war against neutralist and Pathet Lao forces...
...university after three years and took a Greyhound bus to New York City to study acting. He checked coats at "21," tested gags for Beat the Clock, and even washed dishes between minor television roles. When television moved west in the mid-1950s, he borrowed $50 and drove to Hollywood. He worked mostly in westerns, although at first the only way he could stop his horse was by running into a tree. Gradually he moved from "the fifth horse to the horse closest to the camera." By 1962 he was a series regular on Stoney Burke, a TV western with...
...What drove Solzhenitsyn beyond endurance was a recent KGB raid on the one-room shack that he had built with his own hands in the village of Rozhdestvo, 25 miles southwest of Moscow. The author often takes refuge there, to write and enjoy the peace of the countryside. That peace was abruptly broken two weeks ago by KGB agents who arrived at the shack in Solzhenitsyn's absence, apparently to set up a bugging apparatus and search for documents that they hoped might incriminate him. But a friend of the writer's, Alexander Gorlov, surprised them...
After returning to the rover, Astronauts Scott and Irwin drove to Hadley Rille, a long, winding, 1,200-ft.-deep canyon whose origin has long been the subject of scientific debate. While the rover's remote-controlled TV camera followed them with its big-brotherly eye, the astronauts walked slowly down the rille's gently sloping near side. On the almost vertical far wall, they spotted at least two major layers of material. Even more interesting to the scientists in Houston was the astronauts' report that the second major layer contained at least ten subordinate layers...