Word: hit-and-run
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During weeks of hit-and-run sniping, the Viet Cong Communists ran up an impressive score. Two National Assembly Deputies were shot dead in a Jeep outside Banmethuot. A bus was dynamited. Several district chiefs were wounded. Fortnight ago, eight Vietnamese Catholic priests were kidnaped. The old pattern of isolated terror seemed to be reasserting itself, and Vietnamese morale sank steadily...
...home runs. In the opening doubleheader, Roger Maris hit four homers, took over the league leadership (with 40) from Teammate Mickey Mantle (who hit two in three days) and spurted 22 games ahead of Babe Ruth's record 1927 pace. Second-string Yankee Catcher Johnny Blanchard tied a major-league record by hitting four consecutive homers, and even Third Baseman Cletis Boyer (batting average: .231) hit three in two games. Moaned beleaguered Chicago Manager Al Lopez: "I think the fans want to see some bunting and some hit-and-run, not just home runs." But the fans seemed...
...black rebels have given the Portuguese provocation enough for savagery. Working in bands of 20 to 30, the rebels paint their faces red to make themselves "invisible," smoke marijuana for "bullet proofing," wear their trousers inside out as a means of identification on hit-and-run raids. Intent on terrorizing whites indiscriminately, they are not content just to kill; they also mutilate, plucking out eyes, severing hands. Altogether, the rebels are estimated to have killed some 600 Angolan whites. Last week the Portuguese, who all along have claimed that the revolt was not spontaneous but instigated from the outside, reported...
...Night They Burned the Mountain), and recklessly shrugged off the possibility of ambush as he pushed his Jeep through guerilla-infested jungle on daily house calls. A grateful Laotian government awarded Dooley its highest decoration: the Order of a Million Elephants. When critics argued Dooley was a "hit-and-run" doctor, he obligingly admitted to the charge. When they complained about his arrogance, Irish Catholic Dooley replied: "I know of but one meek, humble man who accomplished anything. That was more than 1,900 years ago-and I'm not so sure he was meek and humble." Then...
...plot remains pretty much the same; both versions are based on the novel by the late John Buchan. The hero (Kenneth More), while strolling in Kensington Gardens, sees a nanny struck down by a hit-and-run driver and pursues her runaway pram. Instead of a baby he finds a gun inside. Next day the nanny, recovered from the accident, visits the hero's flat and announces herself as a British agent who has just about got the goods on a big international spy ring. But when the hero leaves the room to arrange a spot of tea, somebody...