Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...standard war flicks cast a Steve Canyon type as the hero of "Rat Patrol," "Combat," and the like. One's immediate response to "The Last War" is that TV has finally told the truth, that someone has finally thrown away the conventional rules about what should and shouldn't be discussed. The plot is somewhat formulaic, and Winter is something of a stereotype--the sensitive youth who grew up on a color-conscious world that killed his mother and kicked him around. But they are not the cliches one expects to find...
Most reporters patrol relatively limited beats-a courthouse, a capitol, a country, a war. John Gunther, 65, covers the earth, ceaselessly crossing borders and oceans as he works at his self-imposed task of describing "the known political world of today continent by continent." The global Gunther shelf lacks only an Inside Australia to be complete. But instead of visiting that continent, as he promised himself to do, Gunther confined his most recent trip to a new study of the ten countries Inside South America. He had been there before, in 1941, for Inside Latin America. But he went back...
College Stuff. As far as the Packers are concerned, a first half is just a patrol action. Contact the enemy, draw his fire, test his strengths, probe his weaknesses. In the locker room at half time, Coach Vince Lombardi wasted no time on pep talks. "Stop grabbing and start tackling," he growled, and then he got down to specifics. Fact One: the Chiefs, on the average, were younger, bigger and probably stronger than the Packers -whose ground game had not been much to brag about all year, anyhow. That led naturally to Fact Two: Packer Quarterback Bart Starr, who completed...
Coursing the Jungles. That interest is already threatened by the Red insurgency in the northeast. The pattern of violence-assassination of rural officials, propaganda meetings held at gunpoint-resembles Viet Nam a decade ago. Earlier this month, for example, a band of 20 Communist terrorists ambushed a Thai police patrol in Nakhon Phanom province, killed two policemen and wounded the others. Already Thai army patrols with U.S. advisers are coursing the jungles in hopes of nipping the insurgency before it can get out of control. To that end, an Allied victory in Viet Nam would be even more effective...
...zippy little vehicles provide all sorts of extra benefits. The putt-putting noise daunts would-be lawbreakers; the potential speed (60 m.p.h.) and mobility enable wheezy cops to outrun juvenile delinquents, mount sidewalks or even bounce up shallow steps to bypass traffic. For surprise, two-scooter teams patrol their beats in ever-changing patterns; for instant contact, each man carries a portable two-way radio. Not long ago, a scooter cop and a prowl-car team simultaneously got word of a burglary; riding on sidewalks, the scooter man beat the car by seven minutes and nabbed the burglar...