Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Probes in Force. There was daylight action as well. Every day, Marine patrols accompanied by agile M-60 Tiger tanks probed at the enemy in force, measuring his strength, assessing his movements, identifying his units, trying to, lure him into battle. But the Communist troops stayed in their foxholes. The bugles did not blow last week...
...federal judge in San Francisco ruled that the Flying Tiger Line was liable in the deaths of 107 persons lost in 1962 between Guam and the Philippines on a charter Super-Constellation because the crew had inadequate sleeping quarters during the long flight. The judge also decided that Flying Tiger was not protected by the Warsaw Convention's maximum liability ($8,300 per passenger) because the travelers had not been issued tickets warning them, in the fine print, of the Warsaw limit...
Princeton was blanked by Colgate, 7-0, for its second straight loss. The Tiger defense held slippery Ron Burton to one touchdown, but the offense was embarrassing. For example, Princeton completed 5 of 31 passes for 61 yards and had six attempts intercepted...
What's Up, Tiger Lily? Woody Allen, as televiewers know, is an anonymous little giggle merchant who looks like a slight defect in the wallpaper pattern and makes funnies that are so far out they sink before the slow boats get there. One day, for instance, he appeared in public leading his pet ant on a leash. On other occasions he wondered evilly if Memorial Day poppies contain opium, tsked sympathetically about a resolutely modern painter who cut off his ear with an electric razor, revealed regretfully that he once owned a silver mine but it tarnished...
Woody has now discovered a gold mine: the movie business. Last year he wrote a wacky feature (What's New Pussycat?) that plotzed so many people that it has already grossed more than $10 million. And in Tiger Lily, this baby-faced bagman has brought off the hat trick. He has made a movie without spending money-in fact, he has made a movie without even making a movie. For about $66,000, advanced by Producer Henry Saperstein, Allen bought up a ludicrously lousy Japanese thriller that was made in glorious TohoColor and should have been confiscated as contraBond...