Word: trains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moscow also accused Peking of deliberately delaying Soviet technicians en route to Hanoi to help the North Vietnamese war effort. Finally, if reports from Eastern European diplomats were to be believed, Russia began moving out of the line in Eastern Europe some 50,000 troops, transporting them by train across Poland to bolster Soviet defenses along the Chinese frontier...
...drama teams will be on the road in villages around the nation, acting out and singing the message of "Come home; your loved ones miss you." To Viet Cong families will go 200,000 almanac horoscopes, illustrated with pictures of rebuilt villages, the Manila Conference, schools and a diesel train. The Chieu Hoi men will even distribute 100,000 games played with dice to V.C. families. In the game, both sides try to get all their pawns to the defection centers through such obstacles as the Ho Chi Minh trail and monsoon rains. Players are sometimes required to start over...
...benefits, no newcomers can be admitted after April 30. The newly forming funds, as a result, are being swamped. "We're doing a really big business now," says Roger S. McCollester, national manager of mutual-fund sales for Dean Witter & Co., "because investors feel this is the last train out of the station...
While their merger deal is clacking along at milk-train speed, the Penn Central partners are rolling up a lot of momentum on their own. Two weeks ago, Pennsylvania Railroad Chairman Stuart T. Saunders, who will be the Penn Central's chairman, reported that the Pennsy's consolidated profits had gone up 29% last year to a 21-year high of $90 million. Coming out with its own returns last week, the New York Central announced that 1966 was the company's best year ever, with earnings up 25% to $66 million...
...unit, is a tired man who has been through the Second World War and Korea; he is sick of war, the mud, the jungle, and the killing. Flashbacks paint his past in quick, terse strokes. When he watches the jungle rush beneath his helicopter, be thinks back to a train ride he took with his mother and sister, the countryside slipping by the window; when he stabs a Viet Cong guerrilla (who turns out to be a woman), he remembers being called a sissy in the school playground; when he buries the woman, he recalls his mother's suicide...