Word: trailed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Viva Maria! looks like a Hollywood comic western, the sort the studios describe as "rollicking round-ups," or "madcap hi-jinx with the men who made the West." This means a screen as wide as the Oregon Trail, technically superb Technicolor, expensive cranes to boost its enormous cameras anywhere they want to go, and in general everything that the little men with the big checks...
...families and their 20 green-bereted American Special Forces advisers, A Shau in the best of times was an uneasy home. A barbed-wire and earthen-walled fortress bordered by a small airstrip, A Shau stood deep in Viet Cong-controlled territory not far from the Ho Chi Minh trail on the Laotian border. The camp existed for only one reason: to monitor traffic coming down the trail. Over the months, a kind of truce between the local Viet Cong and the Special Forces had evolved: live and let live by leaving each other alone. The truce worked until last...
Authentic Dialect. Just 50 miles from Tat Phnom last week, a squad of Thai cops, returning from patrol with two Communist prisoners, was ambushed on an ox trail and forced to dive for cover while the prisoners were permanently silenced by their comrades' bullets. Red terrorists also hit nearby Ubon, where U.S. fighter-bombers operating from that provincial capital mount almost daily strikes against North Viet Nam. In the past six months, Communist assassins have killed some 40 village headmen, teachers and "police informers" in the six Northeast provinces. With steadily growing intensity, armed bands of guerrillas shoot...
...game plains and mountain ranges, the road may well be the world's worst international highway. Its dizzy hairpin turns were scraped out and leveled (often with dragged thornbushes) by African tribesmen working off their tax debts. Along its flat stretches, the road is little more than a trail of treacherous sand or soap-slick mud. Black, blinding rains and eerie mists make it all but impassable from October to May, and the right-of-way is often usurped by two-ton rhinos, herds of elephant and lions basking...
...recent trail of two Russian authors is apparently the first step in a new series of restrictions on artistic freedom in the Soviet Union. Because the Soviet government has managed in recent years to control its artists through unofficial channels, these unexpected proceedings might appear to be a last-ditch maneuver in a losing battle. But the deliberate staging of the trial, almost inviting foreign criticism, is a confident reassertion of the government's right to censor. The harsh sentences imposed by the Supreme Court indicate that this is in fact a precedent for future suppression...