Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many horsemen come along merely for the ride or, as a London sportswriter put it, "the colossal bang of a hell-for-leather gallop over good country." Droves of fans pay no admission, trail the hounds on foot, and even in cars and on motorcycles. Of an estimated 200,000 fox-hunting rooters, many are organized into "supporters' associations," such as the 7,000-member club affiliated with the Pytchley Hunt. "They would never have been tolerated before the war," said one hunt master. At a recent meet in Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire counties, some 2,500 cars clogged...
...effect, Johnson has been on the campaign trail ever since he left Washington to start his 17-day, seven-nation swing through Asia. He went to Australia and New Zealand, the Philippines and Thailand, Malaysia and Korea as a Western leader in quest of a solution to the war in Viet Nam. In Viet Nam itself, he went as Commander in Chief to thank his troops for serving "in the front line of a contest as far-reaching and as vital as any we have ever waged." But he also went to Asia as an American politician whose party...
...French air force pilots' school and flunked his international-transport pilot's test, Ma has logged something like 4,000 hours in the Laotian air force, most of them by leading daily bomb runs against Communist troops moving toward South Viet Nam along the Ho Chi Minh trail. For all his blustering threats, however, Ma's objectives were limited. Royalist generals, who resented his refusal to let them use his transport planes in their more or less open dealings in the opium trade, had pressured the government to retire him as air force commander and give...
...White House was in near bedlam last week as staffers struggled against time to complete arrangements for the President's Far Eastern swing. If for no other reason, it was an ideal time for Lyndon Johnson to hit the campaign trail, and so he did - with a bang. Displaying all the old evangelistic fervor of his 1964 campaign, the President made a fast-paced overnight foray into Maryland, New York and Delaware, at week's end prepared for a brief, last-minute appearance in Pennsylvania...
This weekend, Princeton travels to Philadelphia for an Ivy contest with Penn; Yale nd Cornell will battle in Ithaca to escape the League cellar; and Harvard follows Brown's trail up to Hanover. The Bruins, meanwhile, will have their hands full at home against Army...