Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bush. Part of the Katangese force managed to escape in a column that included 14 commandeered beer trucks and all the city's ambulances, but it did not get far. When reconnaissance planes spotted it on the highway south toward Katanga last week, Mobutu dispatched troops to a river crossing 450 miles from Kisangani, where the Kats were virtually wiped out. An ambush destroyed the first trucks to cross the river, and Congolese air force planes took care of the rest, leaving the survivors to sue for peace to make their way on foot the remaining 1,500 miles...
...substantially different from the G.I. foot, then used special lasts for the production of Thai boots, which are expected to wear twice as long. For field troops plagued by the leeches in warm Thai streams, the center produced a repellent with a lanolin base that neither perspiration nor river water will wash away...
...River Traffic Patterns. Hoping to eliminate every gap in Thailand's defense against possible future insurgents, the center's social scientists have conducted studies on subjects ranging from the work habits and mores of northern hill tribes to the security arrangements in provincial villages. "The most important thing we're trying to do," explains Holbrook, "is to find out what motivates some people to be sympathetic to the Communists...
...night last week 60 million Americans, according to the Arbitron Ratings, tuned in ABC to watch a nine-year-old movie. True, it was a movie of presold quality-The Bridge on the River Kwai-but there was no mistaking the meaning of it all: when it comes to television entertainment, movies are better than everything...
...Rawhide, who claimed that he was "an ugly kid" until he joined the Seabees and a 200-lb. counterweight fell on him, crushing his face, after which Navy plastic surgeons made him handsome enough to become an actor; of drowning while filming a jungle movie; on the Huallaga River in the remote Tingo Maria area of Peru...