Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result may not be "instant men," as one lad puts it. But most boys come away with heightened self-confidence and responsibility. One boy who got such bad blisters that he could not wear shoes put on heavy socks and trotted the six-mile race just to keep his patrol in the competition. Eight of the boys brought off an unscheduled mountain rescue, climbing 2½ hours to save a Baltimore tourist who had suffered a heart attack on a 13,000-ft. ridge near Snowmass Mountain...
...bleak, blasted terrain of Korea a few months prior to the cease-fire at Panmunjom. Private Endore (John Saxon) is a broody loner. Each night he smudges up his face and like a blackface minstrel of death steals out behind the Chinese lines on a one-man patrol. With snakelike grace, he slithers up to an isolated and unwary outpost guard and slits his throat or plunges a knife into his heart. Then follows an infinitely more chilling ritual: the bent-over Endore circles round and round the enemy corpse in a silent, semihysterical Indian war dance...
Jungle Action. Meanwhile, the bitter, dirty guerrilla struggle continues. Last week, after accompanying a combat patrol, TIME Correspondent Charles Mohr described a typical action of the ugly little war in the jungle...
Long ago, the Israeli government had decided that to bury Eichmann's remains would mean desecrating Israeli soil. So, in a nickel container, Eichmann's ashes were taken 18 miles out to sea aboard an Israeli patrol boat and, as the sun rose over the mist-hung Mediterranean, scattered to the winds and water...
Five crews have already taken Scheid's "Computer Age Mathematics, Part I." The television courses are viewed by the crews while on patrol, and men registered in them for credit attend classroom sessions and take examinations at the New London submarine base...