Word: forwarders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...junks loaded with Viet Cong troopers. Outnumbered and outgunned, the patrol sank 28 sampans, damaged 25 more and captured six enemy vessels. >Richard A. Pittman, 22, is a civilian now. Back in July 1966, as a Marine lance corporal, he traded his rifle for a machine gun and rushed forward to help buddies in trouble near the Demilitarized Zone. Pittman singlehanded faced an assault by more than 30 North Vietnamese. His ammunition gone, he grabbed a Communist weapon, then a pistol from a fallen Marine, driving the attackers back with his last grenade...
...afford to maintain any military presence at all in Asia unless joined by powerful allies, including the U.S. Despite pressure from his own Cabinet, Gorton has so far refused to commit his government to keep forces in Malaysia after the British withdraw in 1971. "Our traditional concept of forward defense," he said recently, "may have to be abandoned in the not too distant future...
...about Peter Fuller's grey colt, who was found to have been drugged when he won the Derby. In the end, the stewards succeeded only in adding to the mystery that surrounds the case. They awarded first place (plus the $122,600 purse) to Calumet Farm's Forward Pass. They suspended the Dancer's trainer, Lou Cavalaris, and his assistant, Robert Barnard, for 30 days. They issued a tight-lipped statement that spoke of "certain matters" that were deserving of "further investigation and action." But they did not say what those "certain matters" were, and left...
...this year. This would be only appropriate for what may be Simon's last great corporate stroke. Simon, who will give up his post as chairman of Hunt's finance committee, will be only one among the new firm's directors, says that he has "looked forward for several years to devoting more time to personal and public affairs...
...Savage Seven begins with a bare-chested Indian looming in the foreground, knife in hand. Another brave leaps forward and they begin to grapple to the death. Then comes an offscreen voice, "Will you guys quit screwing around?" The time is the present, and the Indians are a bunch of tribesmen trapped in a California poverty pocket. From out of the hills comes the Enemy, on wheels-and suddenly the ignoble savages find themselves in a stereotypical motorcycle picture...