Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gleaned on twelve trips abroad since 1961. Before minisuited Chris Noel, the G.I.s' disk jockey in Viet Nam (TIME, Nov. 25), could even flutter her eyelashes, Yorty turned to a map of Southeast Asia and launched into Poli. Sci. 101, touching on the Ho Chi Minh trail, North and South Viet Nam, the Viet Cong, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand. His prescription for ending the war: escalation...
...could get-ancient weapons left over from other Asian wars, captured American or South Vietnamese arms, even crude homemade zip guns. Rifles were fashioned out of old bicycle parts; a water pipe frequently became a mortar. Then Soviet and Red Chinese arms began trickling down the Ho Chi Minh trail, and the gradual buildup began. Lately, the buildup has intensified, bringing the Viet Cong an abundance of modern weapons and ammunition. "There is no longer anything ragtag, bobtail or worn out about their main-force weapons," says Major General Joseph A. McChristian, senior American intelligence officer in Viet Nam. "They...
Fearing that the smoking-and-cancer scare may be hazardous to their fiscal health, cigarette makers have long been hedging their futures by tracking down merger opportunities. Lately, the trail has led to the package store. Liggett & Myers last year took over the U.S. importer of J & B Scotch whisky. American Tobacco bought nearly all of Chicago's James B. Beam Distilling Co. last fall, and will soon purchase control of the Buckingham Corp., importer of Cutty Sark Scotch. When its turn came, P. Lorillard Co. decided to try a little tippling...
PROJECT 20 (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* "End of the Trail," the last stand of the Great Plains Indians against the white man's encroaching civilization in the 1870s. Spliced together from historic photographs and current films of the Crow Indian reservation in Montana. Walter Brennan does the narration...
Hard Breather. True, Russell's Celtics trail the Philadelphia 76ers by 7½ games in the race for the regular season Eastern Division championship. But last week they beat the 76ers for the fourth time in seven games this season, 113-112 -and there is no reason to suspect that they can't do it again in next month's postseason playoffs. True, Russell makes mistakes: in one game, he was fined for forgetting to call a required time out (thereby costing the TV sponsor a commercial); in another, he sent in a substitute without removing...