Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oats & Outs. Television has two new westerns this year and one of them is first-rate. The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (ABC) is based on Robert Lewis Taylor's novel about a boy's life in a wagon train on the California trail. It is directed with a spare honesty and superbly acted by Dan O'Herlihy as Jaimie's father. The trail story has its light side, but a necessary, ruthless brutality is always present: women are attacked, children die, a man is knocked cold, then strapped to a horse and sent to a party...
...take it for granted that any six fools and a can of laughter will win high ratings. Paul Henning, who created The Beverly Hillbillies, is obviously attempting to corner corn. He has produced another CBS comedy called Petticoat Junction, a kind of Hickadoon through which runs an old steam train called the Hooterville cannonball. The railroad company is threatening to put the train out of service. Why bother? The Nielsen Limited is barreling up the track the other...
...radical right" in July. Among other things, this gave Barry a golden opportunity to go around preaching party unity. In his dark days, Rocky is having trouble finding a campaign manager with national status. He got a flat no from bulky Len Hall, Dwight Eisenhower's 1952 campaign-train manager, now is trying to enlist ex-G.O.P. National Chairman Meade Alcorn, a Dartmouth classmate...
Death in the Tunnel. The outrage that touched off the government reprisal was a vicious F.A.L.N. raid on an excursion train carrying picnickers to a park 25 miles from Caracas. Hearing rumors that the F.A.L.N. might dynamite the tracks, the army put eight soldiers from its elite National Guard aboard the train. But there was no dynamite; simple killing was the F.A.L.N.'s object. With the December elections so near, it is going to any lengths to undermine Betancourt's government. As the ten-car train approached a tunnel, some 30 young terrorists aboard drew guns and went...
Within ten minutes, five guardsmen were fatally wounded. "We had no chance of fighting back," said one of the survivors. "They shot at us at point-blank range, without mercy." The raiders tossed their five victims off the moving train, stopped it long enough to daub F.A.L.N. slogans on the coaches, then backtracked a single coach to a rendezvous point. From there, they escaped in waiting cars...