Word: hit-and-run
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...little civil war in Yemen last week spluttered on like a defective fuse. The royalist tribesmen trying to put the deposed Imam of Yemen back on his feudal throne made hit-and-run attacks on strongpoints held by the "republicans" of General Abdullah Sallal and their Egyptian allies. In return Egyptian planes bombed the tribal encampments and even crossed the border to blast again the Saudi Arabian town of Najran, the main staging area for supplies sent to the royalists by the nervous monarchs of both Jordan and Saudi Arabia, Kings Hussein and Saud...
After a week of major battles, furious fighting and heavy casualties (TIME, Jan. 11), the war in South Viet Nam settled back last week into its normal pattern of vicious, hide-and-seek, hit-and-run engagements. One band of Communist Viet Cong guerrillas beheaded a government provincial district chief northwest of Saigon, and another knocked over a strategic hamlet in the northeast, capturing enough U.S. weapons to equip an entire Red company. With U.S. helicopter crews working overtime, government troops killed and wounded 75 Viet Cong and captured tons of supplies in a sweep through a Red-infested area...
...Kenton band, the ritual of the hit-and-run-two one-nighters laid back to back-is a commonplace, if still nightmarish, feature of touring life. Kenton himself has been at it for 21 years, as has his driver, who first wheeled a Kenton bus in 1941. The hit-and-run from Port Stanley was typical: the destination was Cleveland, 300 miles away, where the band had a concert the following afternoon. As soon as the bus pulled out. the bandsmen settled down to the jazz world's two favorite antidotes to boredom-poker (rear...
...hit-and-run life worth it? "There's loneliness here on the road," says Trumpeter Marvin Stamm, "but then there's loneliness anywhere in life." Says Kenton, who believes that this band is the best he ever had: "It's not really a grind; it's the way we live...
...confident words were met by a new upsurge of S.A.O. hatred. His broadcast had scarcely ended when the S.A.O. launched a bazooka attack against Radio Algiers, and startled radio listeners heard screams and gunfire over the air waves. The one-week truce was abruptly broken by hit-and-run attacks on isolated Moslems...