Word: trailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nibbling at the Edges. Thus, under apparently more favorable consideration are such notions as launching air strikes against the Laotian section of the Ho Chi Minh trail from North Viet Nam or pressuring Cambodia, which serves as a sanctuary for Viet Cong raiders, by cutting off Cambodian shipping that moves down the Mekong River through South Viet Nam to the sea. "We shall start," said a high State Department official, "by nibbling around at the edges...
...naturally, and five years out of college he signed on as an illustrator for the National Police Gazette. To his delight, one day he was assigned to sketch the circus. Barnum & Bailey was so pleased that it gave him a free entrance pass. He followed the American artists' trail to Paris, where he made his own toy circus in which he sat performing like some child Gargantua for such luminaries as Fernand Leger, Joan Miro, and Jean Cocteau...
Their work paid off fast. From "confidential police sources" the cops picked up the thieves' trail quickly. Within 48 hours, the FBI hauled in two men in Miami and two in New York. The two arrested in Miami, charged with transporting stolen jewelry across state lines, were skindivers; one of them, a chap named Jack Murphy, 27, also a skilled surfboarder, is known to his friends as "Murph the Surf." There was a good chance that there were other accomplices, since the stolen jewels were vet to be found...
...been pushed as far west as Spanish Texas and Santa Fe. The grizzlies were similarly surmountable. Pathfinder Jedediah Smith jerked his mangled head from the jaws of one and went on to discover the South Pass gateway through the Rockies and the last missing link in the Oregon Trail. The Plains Indians, who were some of history's toughest cavalrymen, also found their match in Smith and his "mountainmen." One of them kept on trapping for three years with a 3 -in. arrowhead embedded in his back...
...Homburg hat, the Chesterfield coat, the blue suit and the shirt with French cuffs was back driving his Cadillac to his salmon-pink summer house on a bluff overlooking Lake Ontario. Behind him were two months of exhausting campaigning, a 6,000 mile trail that had led him into 148 cities in 40 states. William Edward Miller, 50, the bantam gut-fighter who had been put on the ticket "because he drives Lyndon Johnson nuts," had come home to roost, and not a day too soon to suit him. "The British have the right idea," he said. Presidential election campaigns...