Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year term - thanks in part to a continuing squabble within the G.O.P. Demo cratic Senator Thomas Mclntyre easily trounced his super-hawkish opponent, retired Brigadier General Harrison Thyng, a World War II and Korean flying ace who had financial backing from such outstate hyperconservatives as Texas Millionaire H. L. Hunt...
...often happens, the battle, code-named Operation Attleboro, got its start with a minor fire fight. A U.S. company on a routine rice hunt stumbled onto a Viet Cong platoon and traded blows for an hour. But that night the enemy struck back, mortaring two base camps -a tactic sometimes used by the Communists to divert the Allies from more serious business near by. Still not certain if something big was up, U.S. commanders dispatched six battalions of the 1st Infantry Division to the scene by plane and helicopter...
...September, he received an invitation to attend a travel service conference in Moscow. The invitation, which was sent to travel agents throughout the United States, included the offer of reduced rates on Aeroflot. Kazen-Komarek's father-in-law, Donald Hunt, said that Kazen-Komarek had made many trips to Moscow in past years but that this was probably the first time he had flown on the Soviet Airline...
...come along merely for the ride or, as a London sportswriter put it, "the colossal bang of a hell-for-leather gallop over good country." Droves of fans pay no admission, trail the hounds on foot, and even in cars and on motorcycles. Of an estimated 200,000 fox-hunting rooters, many are organized into "supporters' associations," such as the 7,000-member club affiliated with the Pytchley Hunt. "They would never have been tolerated before the war," said one hunt master. At a recent meet in Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire counties, some 2,500 cars clogged the vicinity...
Night Riders. How to explain the craze? One old hand, Major G. N. Loraine-Smith of the Pytchley Hunt, says that it "has something to do with the mechanical age creating a longing to get back to something near the earth." He adds: "We even have factory workers hiring ponies and riding out without sleep after working a night shift." But one vocal segment of the British population objects to this form of outdoor recreation...