Word: skunk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Skunk Hunter...
Hunt's biggest moment came two weeks ago, when he led a "skunk hunt" for a suspected Viet Cong supply depot about 60 miles northwest of Saigon. "We were lucky," says Hunt. "One of our guys just happened to come in at a proper angle, and he caught a glimpse of something under the trees. He drew fire, so we all went to have a look." It was quite a look: the area was alive with Viet Cong. Hunt and his outfit marked the targets with smoke rockets and called in Vietnamese and American planes, which destroyed 21 Viet...
...paid. Blame was laid to "some extraneous element like a skunk or a fox (a taxpayer in neither town) rather than a dog, and as far as your justices know, the matter is still 'under advisement.' " So is just about everything else. "Nobody knows what to do with the pile of old complaints and warrants accumulated over 14 years, and nobody has the courage to throw them away." They will doubtless endure for the delight of "some archaeologist digging in the remains of Amherst." As for himself, says Justice Lincoln, it feels great to be "relieved...
...case when he blurted out in court: "I was placed under torture by electricity as soon as I was arrested." Asked for com ment on Hafez' espionage drama, U.S. Ambassador Ridgway B. Knight declared: "I don't intend to get into a spitting match with a skunk"-surely one of the most pungent if least diplomatic remarks ever made by a diplomat...
Musicomedy Star Barbra Streisand, 22, is big for feather boas and faded satin negligees from the thrift shop. Funny girl. She also has a weakness for $1,200 South American skunk furs, for man-tailored suits that she designs herself, and other Barbrous whatsits that make fashion's top camp followers whinny for joy. As a walking encyclopaedia of haute kook, she was nominated for the Encyclopaedia Britannica's 1964 Book of the Year by Fashion Consultant Eleanor Lambert, who called her the embodiment of "the nonconformist spirit." In Los Angeles, though, a couturier who calls himself...