Word: trailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Western position in Laos tottered strategists began to look to the next line of defense. They did not have far to look. Down Laos' spiny eastern border runs what is called the Ho Chi Minh trail, which North Viet Nam's ex-guerrilla President used in his fight against the French. Last week there was almost as much activity along the trail as there was in Laos, as the Communists pushed supplies and reinforcements to the jungle fighters who are battling to take over South Viet Nam-a far richer prize than Laos...
...lonely stations in the Arctic and tropics, men grow eyesore in their never-ending study of radarscopes. In the far Pacific, men from Navy patrols check in on the trust territory islands of Agrihan, Pagan, Aquijan, Sarigan. In the Mediterranean, while Russian "trawlers" trail the Sixth Fleet like beggars, sailors call at Tobruk to deliver and dedicate playground equipment for Libyan children. In a tightly guarded basement room at SAC headquarters in Omaha, hand-picked intelligence officers feed information on weather, geography, fuel and aerodynamics into beady-eyed monster machines that crank out 16 million computations, and then read...
...Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, has the tough job of fulfilling one of Kennedy's major aims: coordinating State and Defense policies so that U.S. diplomacy and military power go hand in hand. Nitze (rhymes with it's-a.) can tackle a ski trail at Aspen, discuss theology with a Jesuit, and is handsome enough to divert attention from Kennedy himself at public gatherings. After graduating cum laude from Harvard. Nitze joined Wall Street's Dillon, Read & Co., Inc., where he began working on his first million and met James Forrestal, later to become...
...Minneapolis Star and Tribune permit partial decommissioning of generals ("If it's Lt. Gen. John A. Jones in the first reference, plain Jones will suffice in later references"), but in the New York Times, once a general always a general. And no paper cares to folo the trail blazed by the Chicago Tribune into a virgin land of simplified spelling: altho, thru, sirup, burocracy...
...Flap. Kidd has such natural talent that he can scorn the accepted theories of track. He runs so far forward on his feet that he seems to be tottering along on tiptoe. Instead of pumping his arms gracefully to help his balance and stride, Kidd often lets his hands trail at his sides and awkwardly shakes his fingers as though flicking off water. "I started flapping my hands when I used to feel tight, and the flapping seemed to relax me," says Kidd. "I'm certainly not going to change now. After all, I do my running with...