Word: jeeping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from North Korea last week started a nasty little war of their own. Sneaking across the military demarcation line that divides Korea into Communist north and U.S.-supported south, they hid beside a road some six miles from the Joint Security Area at Panmunjom. At 5:30 a.m., a Jeep bounced along the rutted road carrying three U.S. enlisted men of the 9th Cavalry Regiment, bound for an observation point on a nearby hill. They never made it. The North Koreans blasted the Jeep from the road with a shower of grenades. Pfc Charles Dessart, 19, of Drexel Hill...
They cut off all communication with the outside and raided the prison arsenal. Before long, police cars and a patrol jeep rolled out of the jail, carrying escapees wearing stolen police uniforms. About the same time, the noon guard shift marched up to the prison gate. The remaining convicts greeted them with rapid bursts of gunfire...
...panic and resentment in two->fisted horseplay. When the heroine (Elizabeth Allen) arrives at the Pacific island where Wayne runs a grog shop, he promptly plops her into the lagoon. Then he dumps her in a canoe, knocks her down in the surf, drags her to his Jeep. When she squeals, he sneers. Can't take it, huh? But next day she proves she can dish it out: she beats him in a swimming race. He reluctantly admits she's a good guy and offers her a lei, but she holds out for a wedding ring...
Along with the Coca-Cola bottle, the Singer sewing machine and the Willys Jeep, the Parker pen ranks as one of the best-known symbols...
...ambitious Arab businessmen. He tripled his total staff to 500, is converting his business from handwritten, single-entry ledgers to computers, has trained a corps of crack salesmen and sent his technicians off to Beirut, England and the U.S. for training. Handling dealerships for such companies as Chrysler, Kaiser Jeep, Gulf Oil, Philco, Whirlpool and National Cash Register, Bader has ridden on Kuwait's boom. Last year his sales included 1,000 cars, 4,000 air conditioners (the Kuwait temperature goes up to 125°), three jet planes, and $600,000 worth of N.C.R. equipment. He is building...