Word: seene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Little Nibbles. Troops manning the guardposts must skimp along on only four or five hours of sleep a night, live on C rations and accustom themselves to an eerie and tense life during their temporary duty. There is seldom any enemy to be seen-only small Communist guardposts on the opposite hills. The terrain is rough with stumps, harsh inclines and thick, scrubby bushes. Thousands of white herons, pheasant, deer and bobcats rustle through the undergrowth, sometimes tripping flares or detonating Claymore mines. North Korean loudspeakers blare constant propaganda. When American and North Korean patrols spot each other across...
Meet Jerry Koosman, 24. "I haven't had this much fun since my third-grade picnic," says Koosman, a slightly flaky 6-ft. 3-in., 205-lb. farmboy from Appleton, Minn. (pop. 3,000), who had seen only two major-league games before he first took the mound for the Mets, and whose performance so far this spring is startling even to his manager. "I wish I could take credit for him," said a dazed Gil Hodges, after Koosman posted a 3-1 victory over the Houston Astros last week...
...often proved a thorn both to his church (he once called Khrushchev "a crusader for peace") and government (De Gaulle, he said, was a "big boob"), he never failed to delight his followers-as when he squelched a heckler on the existence of God with: "You've never seen my derriere, have you? Yet it exists...
...said Leo Tolstoy in 1908, when he was 80, peering into the future of an infant art. He might have altered his opinion had he seen this Russian adaptation of his masterwork, War and Peace. It has escaped greatness, except in cost and length. The film took $100 million and five years to make. After extensive cutting it is now six hours and twelve minutes long. In the Soviet Union it was released in four different segments; in the U.S., audiences must see it at two separate showings...
What Jones and his crew caught in their cameras and microphones is a superbly balanced sampling of this war of snipers and booby traps, night patrols and burning villages, in which the enemy is almost always at hand and almost never seen. No commentator's rhetoric comes between the audience and the action. All that is on the sound track is the noise of what is happening -the tense silence of a patrol exploding into a racketing firefight, the terrible pleadings of wounded men, the ominous urgency of a chaplain's sermon about death. The men of Mike...