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Quick Lift. After losing the battle for Vientiane, Kong Le led the remnants of his battalion north to the jungle town of Vang Vieng. The Russians began an airlift from Hanoi to drop him supplies, and he picked up reinforcements from the Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas, who roam freely through back-country Laos...
...geographical boundaries of his command (see map, overleaf) roam south and west from the Burma-East Pakistan border to the South Pole, north along the coastline to Asia to the North Pole, and east to the continental edge...
Other Big Eight coaches roam farther afield for material. Every winter Missouri's Coach Dan Devine kisses goodbye his wife, six daughters and a son and spends 90% of his time barnstorming around the Midwest. Iowa State has lured no fewer than 23 players out of the fertile football towns of Ohio, traditionally the Big Ten's nursery. In its recruiting competition with the Big Eight, the Big Ten operates under one severe handicap: its prospects must go through the indignity of proving financial need before they can get a full scholarship...
Some of the U.S. firms that have been doing research longest realize the importance of basic research, give their scientists considerable free rein to explore new fields. The Martin Co.'s Research Institute for Advanced Studies, on an old estate in Baltimore, allows some 100 scientists to roam about freely on the frontiers of advanced mathematics, solid-state physics and gravity...
...grain as 'twere, that would keep [him] ingenuous even if all the books in all the libraries of Europe were distilled in [his] brain." His name is Ebenezer Cooke, and in this boisterous historical farce he emerges as one of the most diverting heroes to roam the world since Candide was expelled from the Castle of Thunder-ten-Tronckh in Westphalia...