Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trivia nothing! The impact of late show dialogue far outweighs the cliche factor. John Ireland to Montgomery Clift in Red River: "There's only two things in the world nicer than a good gun: A Swiss watch and a woman from anywhere. Ever have a good Swiss watch...
...commanders now intend to move the western an chor of U.S. defenses south of the DMZ eleven miles northeastward to Landing Zone Stud, the site from which the relief of Khe Sanh, Operation Pegasus, was launched three months ago. Stud, fairly securely nestled in the Khe Sui Soi River valley and now being fortified by U.S. Seabees, has a good airstrip. Unlike Khe Sanh, it is outside the 17-mile reach of North Vietnamese artillery dug into the mountains across the Laotian border. Under the new plan, Marines equipped with borrowed helicopters will try to move fast and throw cordons...
Swollen to flood stage by recent rainstorms, the muddy Pearl River last week washed some grisly flotsam onto the shores of the islands that hug South China. On Hong Kong and Macao, 43 bodies drifted to shore-many brutally slashed and six of them trussed, their arms and legs roped to their necks. The Pearl's cargo confirmed, in dramatic fashion, reports from the mainland by travelers, press and radio that the worst factional fighting in a year is spreading throughout much of China, particularly its southern half...
...dozen other provinces, including Yunnan, Szechwan, Sinkiang and Inner Mongolia. Some of the worst fighting has been in Canton, Kwang-tung's capital and the south's largest city (pop. 2,500,000), where several hundred have been killed in clashes centering on the downtown Pearl River bridge. The victims found in the Pearl last week were probably Cantonese...
...lure him from Munich, but he is not budging. Why should he, when bearded students, blonde duchesses, convent novices, bank presidents and scientists are fighting for tickets to his concerts? He lives a lonely personal life-smoking nervously on long, solitary walks along the banks of the Isar River, draining bottle after bottle of beer while studying at night. But his relationship with his public is a happy affair, best summed up, perhaps, by Katie Spencer, a 23-year-old piano student from Cincinnati: "There is no other serious musician in the world today who has such a habit-forming...