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Hanging Tough. Team Two measured the passage of the night in careful inhalations, silent exhalations, and the clack of bamboo signal sticks used by the Viet Cong patrols that passed within 50 feet of its hideout. Then, at 2 a.m., a single shot blasted the night: Brown's radio man, shifting his M16, had accidentally triggered a tracer round -almost certainly disclosing the team's position. Brown hung tough, hoping that the cross-wave of jungle echoes would confuse the enemy searchers. It did, and at dawn the team moved back in to hunt out the Viet Cong...
Revolutionary teachers and students smeared paste all over my body and stuck on pieces of paper with abusive slogans. They forced me to wear a black dunce cap and beat me with their belt buckles. 1 spent 103 days in a dreadful hideout for devils and demons and underwent what is too painful to describe...
Today Beers, 46, a burly, sandy-haired Scotch-Irishman, lives with his family in Petersburg, N.Y., on a 180-acre estate that was once the hideout for "Legs" Diamond during Prohibition. Last summer, in a leafy hollow on the estate, they launched the first annual Beers Family Festival of Traditional Music and Arts, at which more than 100 country musicians performed before 8,000 people...
...remaining 100,000 combat troops, only two out of every three units can safely be committed in any single sweep-the reserve must be ready to strike in relief or as a blocking force. Moreover, as Birmingham demonstrated, thousands of Communist troops use "neutral" Cambodia as a convenient hideout whenever American troops push into the vicinity...
...Year's Day, their swag recovered, the thieves flee to a suburban hideout with the 100 million and a doe-eyed poule, impishly played by Marie Laforêt. Accidentally glued together in transit, the franc notes must be washed and ironed, Marie decrees. Her laundry is only half done, festooning every square inch of space, when someone notices that gendarmes have surrounded the villa-not to reclaim the clean lucre, after all, but to capture a wild bull in the garden. Though Department Store follows the perennial Rififi formula, Director Pierre Grimblat has wrapped up an ingenious package...