Word: trailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hazards. With no U.S. planes to harass them, 200 trucks daily-ten times the pre-pause average-moved war materiel southward. Routes 1A and 15 bustled with daylight traffic headed for Mu Gia pass, gateway to the Laos spur of the Ho Chi Minh trail. Men moved over the trail too-at least 2,500 during the pause, including 1,000 on Christmas Day alone. Some officials in Saigon unofficially numbered the infiltration at as many as 6,000, and they estimate that there are now at least nine North Vietnamese regiments, and possibly twelve, in the South...
...however, the act, and not the object of the journey, is what counts. German doctors and orthopedists recommend wandern as good for the heart, lungs, legs and circulation. German sociologists inquire anxiously on questionnaires, "Do you walk with your wife?" -presumably on the theory that togetherness begins along the trail. German scholars account for the national wanderlust with learned references to Goethe and the 19th century romantics, who originally glorified nature and the nomadic as a protest against the industrial revolution. By the turn of the century, the idea had captured the imagination of thousands of students, who, in groups...
...long suspected that a branch of the Communist "underground railroad"-the Ho Chi Minh trail-cut through Cambodia. But proof was hard to obtain: so wild and enemy-infested is the Viet Nam side of the Cambodian border that no allied troops had ventured to the border since the French left...
...That, in a measure, deprived the U.S. of the firm point Johnson wanted to make: that to underestimate his resolve could be disastrous. So the U.S. made it in other ways. The bombers usually busy over North Viet Nam were put to work blasting the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos, flying as many as 250 sorties a day against Hanoi's pipeline, which was taking advantage of the bombing pause. And General Wheeler, back from a swing through Southeast Asia, announced that, should the peace offensive fail, he would immediately ask the President for a resumption of bombing...
...hard to see why the 19th century trail breakers despised Bouguereau (Cézanne cried, "J'emmerde Bouguereau!"; Matisse fled his studio in anger). Though his brush stroke was immaculate, his subject matter tended toward soaring echelons of well-stuffed nymphs in the buff, ruddy satyrs in postures of half prayer, half lust. When religiosity overcame him, he produced limpid-eyed madonnas and tableaux of martyrs (preferably female) borne by Roman-nosed pallbearers (preferably male). In the heyday of the Second Empire, no one admitted being titillated by his tangles of tushies and concupiscent cupids; the critics professed...