Word: outfitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pipelines & Paintings. The outfit that splashes its F.A.L.N. initials on any inviting wall calls itself the Armed Forces of National Liberation. Its membership -leftist students, disgruntled workers, professional saboteurs and gunmen-may number less than 400, though Venezuelan far left parties claim 60,000 members. Hardly a day goes by without an irritating reminder of the F.A.L.N.'s existence. Last week a main gas pipeline into Caracas went up in a blast of flame; a major bridge on the highway 25 miles east of the capital was destroyed by dynamite; and four soldiers were killed in an F.A.L.N. ambush...
...Service Committee, the International Association for the Exchange of Student Technical Experience and the Northern Students Movement. University of Chicago Students Jack Fanselow and Tom Burdick will spend their summer flying balloons in Manitoba to measure cosmic rays, and Harvard Senior David Crane has organized a mobile catering-bartending outfit staffed by fellow undergraduates. Last summer the relatively small student body of Williams (1,121) boasted a clambake caterer in Maine, a salmon fisherman in Alaska, a supermarket meatcutter in Maine, a mosquito inspector in New Jersey, a Pinkerton detective in Indiana, a labor union organizer in New York City...
...Venezuela, a dozen members of a Castroite outfit called the Armed Forces of National Liberation raided U.S. Army mission headquarters in Caracas, stripped six staff members down to their underwear, painted slogans all over the walls and set the place on fire...
Scared Princess. The chopper pilots credit Slavich for the outstanding success of the Hueys, call their outfit "Slavich's People." Son of a retired San Francisco Democratic ward politician, Slavich served as a Marine Corps enlisted man after World War II, became an Army officer after graduation from the University of San Francisco in 1951. He won a combat infantryman's badge in Korea, became a pilot in 1955, took command of the U.T.T. Company last November. Slavich runs an easygoing outfit at his base at the edge of Saigon airport. Like tourists, some pilots tote cameras...
Perhaps Richard B. Ruge feels that he is qualified to suggest that Norman Shepard, Harvard's varsity baseball coach, is "strictly bush league;" and apparently he even believes that can refer to the varsity baseball team as a bush-league outfit. Yet on the strength of his article in the CRIMSON (May 9) it would appear that, if anyone, it is Mr. Ruge himself who is "strictly bush...