Word: trail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...season was an old-fashioned love feast, and the hyperbole was as calorie-laden as the chocolate souffle. Noting that his three guests of honor had "each suffered the venomous abuse that often attends public life," Lyndon Johnson defended them as "adventurers, pioneers and statesmen who have blazed the trail of human dignity." Replying in kind, Vice President Hubert Humphrey likened Johnson to Franklin Roosevelt, House Speaker John McCormack toasted him as "a man bigger than life," and Chief Justice Earl Warren psalmed the joys of fellowship. "Behold," proclaimed Republican Warren, "how good and pleasant it is for brethren...
...Rules. There have been few such cases. Easter v. Segelbaum, decided in Washington state, is typical. Easter, who had been standing in a tow line, successfully recovered damages from Segelbaum, who had come whizzing off the end of the trail, slicing one of Easter's left leg tendons. But most collisions result in no suit, in part because no rule clearly spells out who is to blame. In Europe, where skiing ranks right behind traffic and industry as the leading everyday accident hazard, the problem is more serious...
...business, a middle-aged British agent (James Mason) assigned to check out an official (Robert Flemyng) in the Foreign Office who has been anonymously denounced as a Russian spy. Same day investigation starts, subject is found dead. Police report suicide, Mason suspects murder. Suspicion leads down a corpse-strewn trail of betrayal that ends at the hero's own door. The dead man has been betrayed by his wife (Simone Signoret), a Russian agent. The wife in turn is betrayed by the spymaster (Maximilian Schell) who employs her. The spymaster then betrays the hero, a longtime friend, by seducing...
VESSEL OF WRATH, by Robert Lewis Taylor. A whimsical tour of the trail that hatchet-swinging Carry Nation blazed through the hogsheads and saloons of her time...
...value to fight over. But it is strategically situated at the axis of six other nations with which it shares common borders: Red China, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, and North and South Viet Nam. Through the eastern half of Laos, controlled by the Pathet Lao, stretches the Ho Chi Minh trail, over which the North Vietnamese regularly infiltrate South Viet Nam. More than 75,000 North Vietnamese troops are now on Laotian soil, between 20,000 and 30,000 of them combat troops and the rest antiaircraft units, engineers and construction workers. North Vietnamese troops operating in South Viet Nam frequently...