Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wegner says, and he is luckier than most: he has only a smashed vertebra and a broken foot to show for 14 years of competition. Raised on a wheat farm, he got his start breaking horses for local ranchers, quit school after the eleventh grade to wander the rodeo trail. "Lots of times I had to hock my watch to ride." he says. "Once I set out for a rodeo in Sulphur, Okla.. with five gallons of gas from Dad's pump. I didn't have the entry fee, but a woman who owned a dress shop...
Before long, "suppressive fire" became something else. Not waiting to be shot at, U.S. jets began blasting Red targets-mainly along Route 7, the principal convoy link from Communist North Viet Nam to the Pathet Lao, and along the Ho Chi Minh trail, over which North Viet Nam feeds men and material into South Viet Nam (see map). Though aided by Laotian-flown propeller-driven T-28s, bases in South Viet Nam and elsewhere supplied U.S.-manned F-105 Thunderchiefs-one of the hottest, meanest items in the U.S. Air Force inventory, capable of lifting twenty-six 565-lb. bombs...
...strike near Ban Ban was confined solely to Laos. The bridge over the Nam Mat was instrumental in maintaining the flow of Red supplies to the Pathet Lao-the stretch of Route 7 that was hit is too distant to form part of the Ho Chi Minh trail to the south. But the demonstration of U.S. power would undoubtedly have its positive psychological effect in South Viet Nam, where there is concern that the U.S. might pull...
Golf's touring pros are undoubtedly the world's best-paid nomads, but the tournament trail is a long, dusty road...
...cockney Casanova, Alfie leaves behind him a trail of broken hearts and gravid wombs. If worse comes to worst, Alfie is game to arrange an abortion, though not quite up to paying for it. In the lost lingo of yesteryear, Alfie is a bit of a cad, and it might follow from this that he is repellent. Quite the contrary. Terence Stamp plays him with enormously ingratiating charm, zest and skill. More important, Playwright Naughton has netted a real character, and reality exonerates itself in the theater, turning moralizing attitudes into carping ghosts at a feast...