Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first began making the 5,200-mile round trip from Guam to Viet Nam, critics snorted that it was overkill run riot, using elephants to swat mosquitoes. But the point was to hit the V.C. without warning (the B-52s fly so high that they are seldom seen or heard by their targets) in the heart of their eleven major strongholds, keep them edgy and off balance. The SAC planes have hit such strongholds as the Iron Triangle hard and often, and it is now so pitted with B-52 bomb craters and caved-in V.C. tunnels that wags call...
...approached pro-Communist Air Force Boss Omar Dani in Sukarno's presence at the Merdeka Palace and questioned him closely about the air force role in the coup. When Dani pleaded ignorance, Suharto reportedly slapped his face and ripped off Dani's epaulets. Dani has not been heard from since...
Unlucky Lucky. One army officer who has been heard from, though, is Lieut. Colonel Untung, the obscure battalion commander in Sukarno's palace guard who launched the abortive revolt. Untung, whose name in Indonesian means "lucky," pushed nomenclature too far: riding on a bus also named Lucky, Untung was recognized near the Middle Java town of Semarang by two soldiers. Untung vaulted from the bus window but was nabbed by fellow passengers, who took him for a pickpocket and beat him severely before surrendering him to the soldiers. At week's end Untung was back in Djakarta...
...between, the noise quotient would abash a pneumatic drill. Unfortunately, some of the lines can still be heard. Sample gag-Daughter: "Daddy, if there's one thing I'd never do, it's drink." Father: "Just wait till you have a daughter like you, YOU'LL DRINK...
...present, however, the money for the Cambridge program has not been allocated. A spokesman for COEO guessed that federal officials were still reviewing applications, but admitted that the Cambridge office had really heard nothing at all about the program this month...