Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down a Communist guerilla revolt in Malaya. But the Vietnamese situation is fundamentally different from the Malayan. In Malaya the guerillas were Chinese and therefore could not effectively appeal for support on nationalist grounds. Moreover, the British offered immediate compensation to evicted peasants. As Malaya is a peninsula, the war was in effect quarantined from foreign assistance. And the British still had to spend ten difficult years crushing the revolt...
...tourists ever stray very far south of the California border into the long, desertlike Mexican peninsula called Baja California. Below Tijuana, where the Mexican fleshpots generally attract only servicemen, there is scarcely anything to see save for a scattering of native villages and trails. And yet, along the southernmost 100 miles of Baja, between La Paz and Cabo San Lucas (see map), is the best game-fishing ground in the hemisphere-perhaps, as some fishermen claim, in the whole world...
There is little to do there except fish, but the fishing is almost incredible. The narrow gulf between the east coast of the peninsula and the western shore of Mexico itself is a great natural trap for billions of game fish that are swept into the area by Pacific currents. The place teems with black, blue and striped marlin, tuna, swordfish. cabrilla, barracuda, yellowtail, bonito, dolphin and roosterfish...
...survive the cut in the Los Angeles Open, was out of the money in the San Diego Open, debated quitting the tour before the Bing Crosby tournament. But to Ford, the rugged courses and trying weather (rain, sleet, snow, hail, 40-m.p.h. winds) of California's Monterey Peninsula proved peculiarly hospitable. On the first hole of a sudden-death playoff with chunky Joe Campbell, Ford collected the winner's purse...
Pilgrim Stock. El Tor strains of cholera vibrios take their name from a Sinai Peninsula quarantine station where they were originally found in Mecca-bound Moslem pilgrims. The strains were long thought to be harmless, but recently they proved to be the cause of a deadly epidemic in Indonesia...