Word: lais
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri made the first change in his Cabinet since he took office 18 months ago. It was no minor matter. Out went T. T. (for Tiruvallur Thattai) Krishnamachari, 66, Shastri's strong-willed Minister of Finance...
...twelve-day Viet Nam tour, Actress Carroll Baker, 34, was feeling positively unfrocked. First she lost three suitcases with $7,000 worth of Lanvin gowns inside. After the show with Bob Hope at Chu Lai, the troops admired her $8,000 feathered and beaded Balmain so much that finally one G.I. came up, said Carroll, and murmured, " 'Gee, how about just one of those feathers?' I said O.K., and that started it." The boys "deplumed" her. Since the $7,000 Edith Head number "just disintegrated in the heat, mud and rain," the poor child didn't have...
Water Through a Rag. Some of the marines barely had time to pitch their tents when they were sent into their first major battle. On a peninsula below Chu Lai, 5,000 marines, aided by rocket-firing Cobra helicopters, jet fighters and naval guns from Task Force 77, killed close to 700 guerrillas. But this, they soon learned, was Viet Nam. No sooner did Operation Starlight end, said an exasperated officer, than the surviving Viet Cong "seeped back in like water through...
...that has squads and platoons snaking stealthily along tangled jungle paths, ever fearful of snipers' bullets, ever watchful for the trip wire that might set off a lethal "Bouncing Betty" mine or drive poison-tipped stakes into a man's chest. The big set-piece battles-Chu Lai and Plei Me, Chu Pong and la Drang-were the exceptions, and even they
...expected to be boosters, and Tashkent's Hunuddin Asamov is no exception. Last week he was busy extolling the tourist virtues of his ancient city in Soviet Central Asia to a pair of wary travelers: Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan and India's Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri. "We have planted parks and gardens, over 2,000,000 trees, 1,500,000 shrubs and 80 million flowers," wrote Asamov in an open letter. "Moreover, we Uzbeks have a saying: If two neighbors have an argument, go to the third, and you will always achieve peace...