Word: hit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...individual cop. Two hundred marksmen have been assigned to a squad named S.W.A.T. (Special Weapons and Tactics), designed to pick off snipers and to eliminate, presumably, the need for indiscriminate police gunfire, which took innocent victims in Newark and Detroit last year. On the target range they can hit the head of a man's silhouette at 300 yards. A $25,000 trailer has been fitted out as a mobile command post, with an armored underside to fend off Molotov cocktails, and a smaller van is available for secondary commanders. Fibre shields, straight out of Ivanhoe, and bulletproof vests have...
...their fighting mostly on the fringe of the big battlefields: quick, sharp clashes in the jungle along infiltration routes used by the Communists. Occasionally, one of their isolated redoubts is overrun (A Shau two years ago, Lang Vei this year) by an all-out attack. More oftenone is hit by rapid mortar and small-arms harassment probes, which are usually repulsed by the garrison. The camps are generally supplied by air, which provides the only link with the outside world...
...some of the guests are in evening clothes; in reality, substitute a few cans of beer in a bare, functional officers' mess. In the movie, the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese walk into the camp's defenses like so many head of cattle; in reality, they usually hit the way good infantrymen are taught to attack, using every inch of terrain for cover...
Fosbury stoutly defends his style as being scientifically superior. "I've studied physics and engineering," he says, "and jumping my way, I am less likely to hit the bar with my head, arms or legs." He is, of course, more likely to shatter his spine-landing as he does, flush on his shoulder blades. Dick airily dismisses the danger, and besides, his technique is actually a matter of necessity. Using the orthodox frontwards straddle roll, the highest Fosbury can jump...
...pros? Partly, it was the playing conditions. Said Gonzales: "We are used to playing on poor courts at night under indifferent lighting in smoke-filled halls" -a far cry from Wimbledon's outdoor grass courts. The biggest problem was probably the pros' very professionalism -their tendency to hit "percentage" shots (while amateurs gambled on riskier shots that proved to be winners) and their basic disdain for their amateur opponents...