Word: hit-and-run
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...would be a Korean-style invasion from the north with the Communists pouring tank columns and road-bound infantry divisions over the border. Williams was succeeded in 1960 by Lieut. General Lionel McGarr, who many critics think was too chairborne and conventional-minded to deal with the hit-and-run tactics of the Communist Viet Cong insurgents. During one briefing session with Presidential Emissary General Maxwell Taylor last year, McGarr gave a detailed report on the numbers of Viet Cong guerrillas infiltrating the Mekong delta region. Taylor reportedly grumbled: "Why don't you kill 'em instead of counting...
Straightaway (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Gloria Swanson's TV debut, as-guess what?-an aging film queen, accused of hit-and-run driving...
...Radcliffe freshman was injured by a hit-and-run bicyclist yesterday morning in front of Lowell Lecture Hall...
...volunteer teachers from the U.S. Peace Corps descended on Ghana last August, even the most sympathetic of observers in Africa were skeptical. Recalls one foreign-service veteran: "I was convinced that the Peace Corps would be just another hit-and-run set of do-gooders in Bermuda shorts and button-down shirts." But in Ghana, where it is undergoing one of its first real field tests, the Peace Corps so far has been a most pleasant surprise...
Angola's airfields and had daylight command of the roads. But the barefoot guerrillas possessed a 100-mile stretch of the border with the Congo, and are still making hit-and-run attacks on Portuguese convoys...