Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Neighboring Laos shares that unhappy distinction, despite the fact that, under the Geneva accords of 1962, no foreign forces are permitted in the neutralist Elephant Kingdom of 3,000,000 people. From the very beginning, Hanoi broke that agreement by routing the main part of the Ho Chi Minh Trail through Laos. Now the North is stepping up its attacks on the Royal Lao government itself, hitting with force up and down the length of the narrow nation...
...Opel weathered the recession and are now prospering again, Fords have become a drag on the German market. Said the journal Auto, Motor Und Sport of the 1968 Ford models: "Never has a new line of cars attracted so little attention." But Ford hopes to hit the comeback trail in the fall with the introduction of its small, inexpensive "Escort" model...
...long trail to this assertion began unwinding in Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), in which Fied ler argued that the peculiar kink in American literature was an obsession with death; and that, in turn, inhibited a mature approach to heterosexual themes. As a result, literature fastened on a sublimated homosexual ideal, a kind of interracial buckskin-buddy system of innocent dreamers, running toward what Huck Finn called "the terri tory ahead." Actually, Fiedler said, the dreamers were fleeing from women...
Soup Circuit. Though Rafferty has not been an innovative superintendent of education, he has, according to a friendly critic, "been magnificent on the soup circuit and the P.T.A.'s love him to death." He promises to be just as flashy and captivating on the campaign trail for the nomination in the June 4 primary. Democrats are quietly rooting for a Rafferty victory. They believe that with the party's 4-to-3 majority over registered Republicans in the state, Conservative Rafferty would be easier to beat in a general election than Liberal Kuchel. No Democrat of national stature...
...tons of bombs, the greatest amount of tonnage ever concentrated on such a small sector. Even so, U.S. Air Force generals in Saigon concede that, because of poor visibility, the U.S. is able to detect only about 20% of the supplies being trucked down the Ho Chi Minh Trail for the buildup around Khe Sanh. As a result, the U.S. has resorted to saturation bombing of suspected supply areas that sometimes turn out to be ammunition and gasoline caches but are frequently only empty jungle...