Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...England to the Great Plains to Arkansas and Texas, bringing to 35 the number of states he has visited since he rejoined the race. He cracked jokes and lobster in Maine, clanged through the streets of Sioux City, Iowa, in a fireman's hat, was greeted on the green in New Haven, Conn., by Sybil, a seven-year-old elephant with a Rockefeller sticker on her trunk, and dropped in at the famous Humphrey drugstore in Huron, S. Dak., to pick up gifts for Happy and the two boys; when the $21.08 bill was rung...
...Chicken" with Vans. The fighting began when the radicals stormed the campus, which was held by their opponents; besides guns, their hardware included flamethrowers, presumably stolen from the army. Some of the university's green-roofed buildings were set ablaze, and conservatives later claimed that 47 of their number had been "barbarously killed." At one point, trapped for three days in the physics building, they dashed off a telegram to Mao detailing the carnage and pleading for his help. Elsewhere in Canton, the two rival factions staged the Cultural Revolution version of "chicken": lining up some 20 military vans...
...play with an adhesive-wrapped soft drink bottle instead of a club. "I used a Dr. Pepper bottle," says Lee, "because it is smooth, while a Coke bottle is rough. I used the family size, the quart bottle. People would bet me that I couldn't hit the green or make a- putt-and I usually won the bets...
Anticipating history a bit, the film ends with Victor Charlie in full retreat and the good guys in control. Even Janssen is flapping his right wing and impugning his liberal-minded employers: "If I say what I feel, I may be out of a job." Among other dubious distinctions, Green Berets wins this year's Yellow Peril award for a line spoken by a sly South Vietnamese general who spots Wayne eying a willowy Oriental star (Irene Tsu). "Besides being one of our top models," he says, "she could be most helpful to our government...
...blunderbuss way, John Wayne has also tried to help make the war comprehensible. But except for the technical excellence of a few gory, glory-hallelujah battle scenes, Green Berets is strictly for the hawks...