Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost-forgotten war, government troops scored a smart succession of victories against the Viet Cong in four widely separated provinces. More attention, however, was being drawn by a worrisome development to the north. In the past month, despite U.S. air harassment, some 5,000 Communist troops have quietly massed around the southern Laotian town of Tchepone. About half are Pathet Lao from Laos. Even more unsettling, the rest are from North Viet...
Brains, most handlers insist, are the key to a hound's success in topflight competition. In the starting box, unable to see, dull-witted dogs tend to relax; the smart ones stay tense and ready. Says Florida Trainer F. B. Stutz: "They learn to listen for the sound of the rabbit coming up behind the boxes. They gauge just how much the noise has to fade before the lure is far enough away to trip the doors, and they're ready to jump when those doors open...
Experienced hounds know their job so well, says Stutz, that Swifty could be "a box of Wheaties-they'd chase anything." And in the scramble of a race, smart greyhounds are not above resorting to trickery to win. "I had me a little dog who didn't like passing on the outside," recalls Trainer Oscar Duke. "Just as plain as anything, he'd sneak up on the dog ahead of him and throw his haunches into him. The other dog would pull out for a second, and mine would zip right through the hole...
...time is the present, the scene is a small town in the deep South. The hero (Ivan Dixon) is a young Negro-too proud to truckle, too smart to fight-who is working as a section hand on the railroad and pretending he doesn't really want to live the way the white folks do. He never knew his father, he hasn't seen his bastard son for at least two years, and he can't see why he should get stuck with a black family as well as a black skin. Then one day he meets...
...basis of his early history, no one could have seemed less likely to become a master manipulator of the smart set. Born 50 years ago in Warsaw into a wealthy Polish family, he was educated in Switzerland and Belgium, where he ran a family-owned cigarette factory. At 21 he was heavyweight amateur boxing champion of Europe. When World War II broke out, he joined the Polish army in France, did time in prison camps, escaped, and eventually found himself under orders from Polish intelligence. When he managed to smuggle himself to London, Intelligence arranged for him to open...