Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...border had received heavy weapons fire from Cambodian territory, and were ultimately forced to silence it with howitzer fire. Even more interesting evidence of Sihanouk's cooperation with the Communists was the discovery of a new infiltration route into South Viet Nam-a chain of truck roads, bicycle trails and rivers that provides transport for supplies moving north and east out of Cambodia to some of the most important fighting areas of South Viet Nam. It has come to be known as the "Sihanouk Trail...
...route-a supplement to the maze of paths and roads leading south called the Ho Chi Minh Trail-was discovered by the Laotian air force, whose commander, Brigadier General Thao Ma, had been keeping a close eye on Cambodia since last September. About that time, Ma received reports of activity along the Se Kong River, a tributary of the Mekong. Near its banks could be heard the sound of blasting and rumble of heavy equipment in a region virtually empty of inhabitants. By early April, Ma's aviators could follow the trail for 60 miles from Cambodia to where...
...marks of man's incursion on the wilderness are by now unmistakable -bullet-riddled trail signs, garbage-strewn campsites, carved-up tree trunks and paint-smeared rock faces. To Mrs. Margaret Robarge, wife of a Seattle postal clerk, such wanton destruction, which she first encountered on a pack trip into Washington's Cascade Range nine years ago, smacked of "wreckreation." Outraged, she decided to set up the Good Outdoor Manners Association...
With a doctor beside her to treat possible rattlesnake, tarantula or scorpion bites, Secret Service men and rangers nearby to fend away any stray panthers or bobcats (Big Bend counts 28 species of snakes and 60 different species of animal), Mrs. Johnson hiked up the Lost Mine Trail for a look across the Rio Grande. She ate dinner beside a campfire at sunset, listened to Western songs from local troupes and genuine tall tales by a folklorist imported from the University of. Texas...
...between the ever fresh present and the fullness of a lifetime, meticulously reconstructing the scene, down to an original 1943 calendar pinned on the wall of Roxy's. The mustiness that he seeks to enshrine, however, is not embalmed nostalgia. "I think of my art as laying a trail for people," he explains. "They can follow it, and at a certain point I disappear. Then they have to make a decision, even if it's only to get the hell out of there. No one can walk past a tableau; he has to walk into...