Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Walking Bushes. But the worst was still to come. Less than a mile ahead, directly in the path of Hotel Company, lay the Viet Cong regimental headquarters, just outside the Van Tuong village complex. As the Americans most of them under 20−advanced, they ran into an almost endless tangle of V.C. entrenchments: blockhouses, concrete bunkers, fortified hedgerows and tunnels. "They were all over the place," said one squad leader, "but we couldn't see them due to their camouflage. They had full-sized bushes tied to their backs...
...well as Canada in search of novel solutions to city problems. The Milwaukee Journal runs a fat Sunday section, Home, which covers all facets of the city building boom; many of its stories spill over into the news sections of the paper. The Philadelphia Bulletin recently ran an eight-part series, "The Movers and Shakers," by Political Reporter John McCullough, who spent three months tracking down the true business and professional powers in the city...
...Revue published what purported to be a sensational interview with Nikita Khrushchev in retirement, but the interview was judged to be a phony. Last June, upon learning that Der Stern was about to run some striking photos of a developing embryo taken by Swedish Photographer Lennart Nilsson (that also ran in LIFE), Revue faked an embryo sequence of its own. It drew a blast from Stern: "They borrowed textbook photos, and an institute lent them a fetus preserved in alcohol, and-the pen hesitates to put it down-the whole thing was photographed in a water-filled prophylactic." Lamented Revue...
...identification of competition has long been a rarity, and advertisers have gone to almost any length to avoid it. Now a steadily growing number are coming right out and naming names, thus bringing on bad times for Brand X. Happy Birthday. Dodge dealers in the East and Midwest recently ran a radio campaign that openly wooed "you guys and gals who are bored with Ford." A current magazine ad for Hudson's Bay Scotch shows a dozen other brands, advises that "now that you have acquired a taste for Scotch, you are ready for Hudson...
...court knows herself I'd eat somewhere else. I thought they would throw me out, but I reached for my old standby and they didn't dare." There were perils as well as pleasures. Once, while riding alone through Arizona's Skeleton Canyon, McCauley ran into a passel of Apaches. "They fired and my horse fell. I fired twice and two of them fell from their horses, but the balance was after me. As they went by in a lope I let one more of them out of his saddle. All day long I layed flat...