Word: sampans
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...could turn his suicidal impulse to good account by insuring his life for $2,000,000 and letting himself be murdered. He does-and then meets Stripper Ursula, a girl worth living for. Fleeing a corps of assassins, the lovers go to the Himalayas and back by junk, ricksha, sampan, elephant, airplane and balloon. They survive shipwreck in a floating coffin, and even beat off an attack by a fleet of heavily armed Coca-Cola trucks...
...troops entering captured Viet Cong camps have found entrenchments enforced with American steel plates, homemade mortars fashioned from U.S.-made steel pipe. Recently, a new metal-working lathe, imported under the AID plan, was found buried under manure aboard a Viet Cong sampan. Precious American antibiotics, on sale at hundreds of Saigon pharmacies legally stocked with U.S. medicine, are easily spirited out to Communist forces, often in loaves of French bread or hollowed-out cabbage heads...
...puff," the Dragon can spit 300 bullets at Viet Cong on the ground. "It's a solid bar of fire," explains a U.S. officer, "and the noise is a terrible roar." The Lightning Bug is a UH-1B helicopter fitted with seven brilliant landing lights. It goes sampan hunting at night along Viet Cong rivers or canals. Antipeople peepers include Tipsy 33, a ground-surveillance radar first used by the marines along their Danang perimeter. By the end of this year, a steel-mesh net platform that can be laid by helicopters across jungle treetops will...
John Shaw did some conventional flying between his Hong Kong base and Bangkok, where the going was less conventional. There, his means of locomotion included a motor samlor (popular Thai vehicle made up of a pedicab body hitched to a Vespa scooter), a motorized sampan and a Bangkok banker's air-conditioned Jaguar...
Danny Mahoney, Eastern diving chanson and the best Crimson diver since sampan Frank Gorman in 1960, finally came an All-American at the NCAA swimming and diving championships in lows last week...