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Word: trail (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...born in Wildberg, West Germany, and came to the U.S. with his brother as a teen-ager in 1957; he joined the Air Force that same year, became a U.S. citizen in 1960, and was commissioned as a Navy aviator in 1964. Shot down over the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos last February, it took him until June 27 to escape. He and another U.S. pilot slogged through the jungle for 20 days, living on roots and bananas, until a North Vietnamese patrol snared Dengler's companion. While the Navyman watched in horror from cover, the Reds summarily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Viet Nam: Hanoi's Humanitarianism | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...kill them all, but we can make sure Charlie has to eat cold rice," says an Air Force targeting officer. With powerful 4,500,000-candle-power flash cartridges, Recce planes can turn night into day to photograph enemy convoys sneaking down the Ho Chi Minh trail. "The object is to make Charlie walk," says another targeter. "I'd like to see him start walking at Hanoi. The farther he has to walk, the longer his supply line becomes, and the less there is that reaches the South." Their cameras are set to fire automatically when the flash cartridges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Eyes in the Sky | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

...photo interpreters can tell whether a dark patch in the foliage is the cover for a V.C. truck-or the product of a jungle spring. A one-eighth-inch telephone wire strung across a jungle clearing can betray the location of an enemy field-communications system; a jungle trail that suddenly peters out can pinpoint the entrance to a labyrinth of V.C. tunnels; a road that goes nowhere can lead the photo interpreters to a hidden oil dump. It requires infinite patience. "A road ends at a river where the ferryboat has been sunk by bombing," says Captain John Irwin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Eyes in the Sky | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

...tale, commanded one of his concubines to bind her feet in a faunlike configuration and dance among the petals of a giant golden lotus. The emperor's concubine, if Chinese tradition is correct, was the Judas deer who led millions of Chinese women down a thousand-year trail of torture. The cruel custom of footbinding spread rapidly from court to commons, and continued unabated until Sun Yat-sen's revolution of 1911. After that, it disappeared so rapidly that no Western sociologist investigated a practice that exemplified a sadomasochistic cast of character and civilization and illustrated more drastically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Peculiar Passion | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

...nicknames, West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard cherishes none so highly as Wahllokomotive (vote puller). Indeed, over the past two decades he has chugged well ahead of the rest of his party, helping to pull it to victory behind a prosperous trail of cigar smoke. Last week the Erhard engine ran dangerously low on steam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Low on Steam | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

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