Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...circled the grounds at a majestic six miles an hour. On the same story was the Tokyo Bureau's Sungyung Chang, who went to Nagoya to have a look at a model of a new 600-m.p.h. "sonic gliding vehicle." On his way there, Chang traveled on a train that moved at a mere 125 m.p.h...
Oddly enough, the news was less in what Bobby said than in what he didn't say. In a speech prepared for delivery in Washington before the 146-man graduating class of the International Police Academy, an organization run by the Agency for International Development to train foreigners-primarily Latin Americans-in counterinsurgency techniques, were these sentences about the Vietnamese...
...soft life of a Moscow student, with its "party spouses" and anticapitalist polemics, Ho set out for China under the name of Nguyen Ai Quoc (roughly, "Smith the Patriot"), as agitator and translator for Stalin's agent Mikhail Borodin. Their mission: to penetrate the Kuomintang and train Communist can bo (cadres) to infiltrate French Indo-China. At Canton's Whampoa Military Academy, Ho demonstrated his skills as a disciplinarian. Any student-agitator who failed to show sufficient diligence was promptly betrayed to the French when he infiltrated Viet Nam. Most of Ho's pupils quickly learned...
...year is 1867. With winter due, the city of Denver has been hit by a liquor shortage. In ten days the saloons will be bone dry unless a wagon train can get through with the likker. So 40 wagonloads of champagne and whisky go lumbering across the plains on a collision course with a band of footsore Denver vigilantes determined to protect the booze, a tribe of thirsty Sioux Indians who want to drink it, and a U.S. Cavalry troop led by Captain Jim Hutton set on heading off the Sioux. Meanwhile, a temperance-minded suffragette (Lee Remick) fields...
...director, Morton da Costs (famous for No Time for Sergeants, Auntie Mame, Music Man and such stuff), has done a barely competent job of maneuvering everyone around the stage, and two of the actors, Beau--son of Lloyd--Bridges, as Tom, and June Harding, as Teena, got their training in the TV wonderland of "Seahunt," "Wagon Train," "As the World Turns" and "Ben aCsey" and are totally incapable of registering even laughter with any skill. The only real entertainment is provided by the two pros of the cast, Dorothy Stickney as Mrs. Bigelow and especially Hiram Sherman as Pinky. Sherman...