Word: trail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Previously, infiltrators from the North, sent down via the Ho Chi Minh Trail, were mostly drawn from 90,000 Southerners who had moved North after Viet Nam's partition in 1954 and had been trained by the Communists. These are now either too old for the tough guerrilla life or have been used up in the war to date. Thus most of the new arrivals from Hanoi are young North Vietnamese draftees. Of the 7,400 Viet Cong who entered the South last year, fully 75% were natives of North Viet...
...slalom, Steve Blodgett placed sixth, with a time of 131 seconds, fifteen seconds behind first place runner, Olympian Gordy Eaton of Middlebury. Ned Cabot was next for the Crimson, in seventeenth place. The course was a double run on a steep, bumpy trail...
Awori registered another record in his trail head of the 60-yard high hurdles. He set a new mark of 0:07.3, but teammate Tony Lynch equalled that clocking in the finals, coming from behind to edge navy's Courtland Gray and Awori for first place...
...downhill, the competitor must ski that is usually the entire length of a mountain trail as fast as he can. In the deepest sections there are often "control gates" which define several turns that must be made to keep the racers from going to fast. But a good fast course will usually have one or two spots there the racer is going up to fifty or sixty miles an hour...
...Wingate School, named for Britain's mystical guerrilla leader Major General Orde Wingate, whose troops had liberated Ethiopia from Italian occupation in 1941 and permitted Haile Selassie to return home from his London exile. The Queen also visited Gondar and hiked a mile up a precarious mountain trail to look out over Tisisat Falls, a breathtaking scene near the source of the Blue Nile. Less than a century ago, a 32,000-man British force under Sir Robert Napier had crossed the same kind of trails (along with some 30,000 beasts of burden, including 45 elephants) to defeat...