Word: rangers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into action, the pilots refused to fly below 12,000 ft. out of respect for the Communists' imposing antiaircraft arsenal. That, in turn, made it impossible for government helicopters carrying reinforcements to land within the city. In the end, the South Vietnamese were only able to put two Ranger companies totaling about 200 men into the battle. After two days of close fighting between outnumbered government troops and Communist tanks and sappers, Phuoc Binh was in North Vietnamese hands. By the time Saigon's air force belatedly started to bombard the area, destroying what remained of the small...
...impact on contemporary comedy and social criticism. Although he performed over twenty years ago, his ideas and even snatches of his routines still appear in plays, movies, articles, and even Harvard Band half-time shows. Lenny's style is blunt, even callous, creating outlandish imaginary situations: the Lone Ranger becomes a lonely homosexual who can't accept gratitude; Adolf Hitler is reduced to a house painter, cast as the Fuhrer by ambitious producers. His delivery is equally abrupt--he bends words, runs phrases together and throws away punch lines like a jazz musician improvising a solo...
...availability is Buster (Jan-Michael Vincent), steady and sensitive beyond his years. He is the most popular and respected boy at the local high school. When a friendly storekeeper asks Buster why he does not go along on the Billie expeditions, he replies that he is "the Lone Ranger" and he likes moments of intimacy to be private...
That would be fine with him. He tries to live up to one colleague's description of him: the Lone Ranger of columnists...
...liberalized its electives. Cadets in the social-studies department, for example, can take political philosophy, microeconomics and political and cultural anthropology. During the summer, as part of their military training, midshipmen ship out on nuclear submarines and cadets can earn helicopter-pilot or paratroop wings or take ranger or arctic training. Officials say that this "adventure training" is not the least of the charms of the service academies...