Word: rangers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...premiere, "Mod Squad" ran an hour and a half, to give us a chance to get to know the kids. The idea is reminiscent of the first-of-the-year Lone Ranger shows, In Which We Learned Why he wore a mask, Why his horse was called Silver, Why he used expensive silver bullets, How he met Tonto, etc. But "Mod Squad" is, in contrast, woefully boring, displaying not a tenth of the style or the imagination of "The Lone Ranger...
...ever a lone ranger has ridden out of the West, it is the tiny (circ. 7,000), fearless Texas Observer. In 14 stormy fears, the Austin-based biweekly paper las tangled singlehanded with oil and gas interests, exposed statehouse scandals, often made life painful for politicians in the land of Lyndon. The Observer's founder is Ronnie Dugger, a prodding, provocative University of Texas graduate who came back from one year at Oxford with a passion to unmask corruption and hypocrisy. With a number of equally talented and brash companions, Dugger has made his influence felt far beyond...
When they are finally strong enough to stray from the clearing occasionally, Ranger James Wong and his staff carry them deep into the forest, abandoning them there along with a day's supply of food. But the orangs usually come scrambling home shortly after the food is gone. A few days later, Wong hauls them off again, and sometimes several wearying times after that, because the orangs stubbornly refuse to give up the easy living with their human friends...
...Moonlighting on Patrol. Another reasonably satisfied-if weary-outfit is the 151st Long Range Patrol Group of Indiana Naional Guard paratrooper volunteers. Called up in May, they have since been hiking through the Georgia pinewoods around Fort Benning's ranger school. "We start with physical training at 5;30 in the morning, and we patrol most of the day," details Captain Kenneth Himsel, 30, an insurance executive. "We're not in the army to moonlight...
...Special Forces camp, with the task of blocking and monitoring infiltration routes from the North. When the enemy started to besiege the camp, that function was rendered impossible. The U.S. nonetheless poured in troops, building up to some 5,700 U.S. Marines and a 500-man South Vietnamese Ranger battalion. The Marines were not anxious to make a stand there: they sat at the end of a 27-mile supply line on Communist-interdicted Highway 9, the weather was turning bad with the onset of the Northeast monsoon, and they had done little in the way of fortifying the isolated...