Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fighter-bomber pilots of the Royal Laotian Air Force file solemnly into the office of their commanding general and remove their personal horseshoes from pegs on the wooden wall. Then the pilots trot out to their American-built T-28s for an other crack at the Ho Chi Minh trail...
...horseshoes are for good kick-an old Western custom adapted to Laos-and the fliers need it, for in the past few months the Ho Chi Minh trail has undergone a grim transformation...
...South Viet Nam. This, despite North Viet Nam's solemn signature on the 1962 Geneva accord guaranteeing Laos' neutrality and barring foreign troops from Laotian soil. The infiltration now comes to an estimated 4,500 bo dot (regular infantrymen) a month. More than one third of the "trail" has been converted into broad-shouldered, two-lane dirt highways. Truck convoys move by night, along with pack elephants and rubber-sandaled coolies...
Proof of that came during last month's fierce fighting around Plei Me -a South Viet Nam terminus of the trail. North Vietnamese fought fiercely to keep the U.S. 1st Cavalry out of the mountains above Plei Me, expending vast supplies of ammunition in the process. The any-cost resistance convinced many Americans that the area is a major stockpile site of the Red forces...
...deliver a big, bright Christmasy gewgaw for the holiday trade. Sometimes it is a stray animal epic, sometimes a folksy romantic comedy, sometimes a wholesome teen-age adventure. This year it is all three, wrapped around the substantial screen presence of Hayley Mills, who goes gumshoeing on the trail of a criminal tomcat while her sister (Dorothy Provine) scrutinizes FBI Agent Dean Jones. Hayley nips through her role as though English accents were an absolute must among subdebs of Southern California, and Scrooge himself might unbend when she reports saucily to the FBI: "I have some information about...