Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fairly substantial losses. The continued enemy pressure around Saigon was underscored by the U.S. sweep in the V.C.-infested Michelin rubber plantation northwest of the capital. After a week of battle, more than 600 enemy troopers were reported killed. To the north, along the Demilitarized Zone, U.S. infantrymen ran across a North Vietnamese force, killing 120 Communist soldiers while taking 14 dead and 30 wounded of their...
Churchill speaks with understatement about his grandfather. Winston, he says, "suffered from being put down as Sir Randolph's boy. He had to carve out his own little niche. It wasn't so little." Churchill is certain his own niche also will be carved in politics. He ran for Parliament in 1967, lost narrowly, intends to try again. He, too, sees a certain compatibility between politics and journalism. "An M.P. has to be well informed," he says, "and journalism is one of the best ways of informing oneself." Journalism is also, as Winston Spencer Churchill well knows...
...make us glad of the oil which ran upon Aaron's beard...
...Ears. Barbara Jo Rubin, 19, has already proved it. When she rode two winners on the same day at Waterford Park in Chester, W. Va., touts dismissed it as beginner's luck at a small-stakes track. Then she went to Aqueduct and, with pigtails flying, ran away from the field aboard an untried 13-1 shot named Bravy Galaxy. Quashing the cynics was gratifying, she says, but her biggest thrill was having the jockeys ambush her and douse her with a bucket of water, a traditional ceremony after an apprentice rider's first...
Because of the fear and fluidity in postwar Europe, the Russians found Gehlen's organization easy to infiltrate with double agents, primarily ex-Nazis like Heinz Felfe. Felfe, similar to Britain's renowned traitor Kim Philby, for ten years ran the Russian desk of West Germany's counterintelligence service. Acting as a Russian agent, Felfe effectively negated the Gehlen organization's counterespionage efforts against Russia while keeping Russia informed on operational intentions of the END and the Allies. The exposure of Felfe's treachery in 1961 almost cost Gehlen...