Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slipping through jungle are still hard to stop. Two months ago, a French planter in South Viet Nam was captured by the Viet Cong. Before he was freed, he reports, his captors were bombed for 17 days but kept moving. Total guerrilla casualties: one dead. Further, as was shown in Korea, masses of manpower can repair roads and makeshift bridges overnight. Says a U.S. military officer in Laos: "A 500-lb. bomb makes a hole five feet deep and ten feet across. With 50 coolies filling the hole and packing it with a battering ram the road can be ready...
...West German aid to Israel. The Arab Pre miers warned Bonn that they just might retaliate by recognizing East Germany. This heavy-handed blackmail was rejected by Bundestag President Eugen Gerstenmaier, who replied: "It goes too far when some other state, against which we have nothing, tries to stop us from giving aid to Israel...
...without ever leaving his feet. In a game, his specialties are the "dunk" shot (in which he leaps up and rams the ball through the hoop from above) and the "backward dunk" (the same thing, but backward over his head), and the only way anybody has figured out to stop him from scoring is to glue his sneakers to the floor somewhere around midcourt...
...easy-with a little bit of luck. Harney's wild No. 2-iron second shot on the par-five ninth hole barely missed a boundary fence, scooted through a crowd of fans in the rough, bounced into another crowd around the green and somehow trickled to a stop just off the apron. "You must have gone to Mass this morning," joked a fan. Answered Catholic Harney: "Twice." A chip, and a putt-and he had his birdie. Harney's last-round score: 69, for a 72-hole total of 276, eight under par and a three-stroke victory...
...with sex appeal, social charm or manliness. But this was not enough for Emerson Foote, an ex-adman who made a fortune out of peddling cigarettes before he changed sides and began to crusade against smoking with a convert's zeal. Incredibly, he urged the tobacco companies to stop advertising altogether. Foote has just moved in as chairman of the Interagency Council...