Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were trained for 13 weeks in the arts of "self-defense, self-help and self-government" at seaside Vung Tau. Skilled in everything from using a grenade launcher to digging a well and administering first aid, they are Saigon's-and the U.S.'s -first wave of shock troops in elemental nationhood. Already, 5,000 more cadremen are in training; by the end of the year hopefully 15,000 will be in the field. Some will be old hands at pacification retrained to bring new skill to their job. They are the manpower legacy of previous programs, from...
...need comes from the young who are indeed looking for heroes. The seriousness of the search is only underlined by the weird pseudo heroes whom some have discovered, ranging from Bob Dylan, the long-playing minstrel of social protest, to the Beatles, who demonstrated a way to shock their elders and still be innocent...
...land them in Puerto Rico would be seized on the spot. The Cubans finally made the scene aboard a Puerto Rican tugboat, which ferried them ashore from a Cuban freighter that dropped anchor just outside the three-mile limit. Their reception was warm indeed. Cops swarmed all over them. Shock squads of exiles followed them everywhere, trying to persuade them to defect. Officials turned up with telephones, at the other end of which were relatives who had already fled Cuba. A Puerto Rican bus driver, hauling Castro's swimming team, stopped outside a house hastily labeled "Refuge," opened...
What did it all mean? One theory was that Fidel was ailing; another that he was undergoing shock treatments. Still another, more widely subscribed to, was that Moscow had finally decided to put Fidel down and replace him with a less mercurial leader such as Dorticos. Were the Castrologists really on to something this time? Perhaps they were, but only astrologists would know...
With Detroit becoming more sensitive to safety, two additional safety features will be standard on most '67s. One is the collapsible steering column, whose steel-mesh center section accordions under impact and absorbs shock. The other is the dual braking system, with two hydraulic fluid lines instead of one, so that emergency braking power remains if one line is damaged. The Senate Commerce Committee is close to approving legislation that may make other safety features mandatory on '68 models, probably including headrests and rupture-proof fuel tanks...