Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...failed to inform "either Kennedy or McNamara that they still thought Trinidad preferable," while Schlesinger recalls that the Chiefs said they still preferred Trinidad-but said it "softly." At one point Dean Rusk suggested that the operation be launched from Guantanamo, thereby providing the invaders with an opportunity for retreat; but the Joint Chiefs rejected that idea, and Rusk later complained to Schlesinger that "the Pentagon people" were willing to risk "the President's head" but not the U.S. base...
Hitting the Junks. The week's most spectacular fight came near Chu Lai, the coastal airbase defended by 2,500 U.S. Marines. There the Viet Cong overran an island headquarters of the South Vietnamese "Junk Fleet" (TIME, May 7), but before they could retreat, the marines stormed ashore to trap them. Many Viet Cong swam to safety, but eight were killed and 45 captured...
...Edgartown Yacht Club is the most exclusive establishment on the island and is regarded as the summer retreat of the New York Yacht Club. In a normal season, the ferries that ply between the Vineyard and the mainland will carry some 500,000 passengers, 90,000 automobiles and 10,000 trucks; during a busy weekend as many as 200 private or commercial planes will land with passengers. But the "in" way to arrive on the island ?the only way for some?is to step down from your own Beechcraft, or to drop the hook from your boat in Edgartown...
...Jackson Hole, in northwestern Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park, has a traffic jam now and again, but mostly when moose and elk saunter across the roads. Tourists drop by from almost everywhere, but it is a summer retreat for well-to-do families from California, Illinois, Colorado and Utah, who want to turn the kids free to enjoy the glories of unspoiled nature without entirely forsaking silver on the table, innerspring mattresses and modern plumbing. Because the late John D. Rockefeller Jr. fell in love with the area and set up a nonprofit corporation to provide facilities, visitors...
...native village, pursuing a man he believes to be his young daughter's killer-a defeated warrior who was told by a conniving witch doctor that he could regain power by eating the heart of a child. Before the witch doctor is brought down from his clifftop retreat and exposed as a fraud, Gampu has been clapped into a Johannesburg jail, charged with attempted murder. His friend in need, sent over by Legal Aid, is Stanley Baker, whose wife (Juliet Prowse) keeps prodding him to "care about people." Notwithstanding its bizarre and colorful appeal, Dingaka ends on a cautious...