Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...escape routes. Battalions of Vietnamese army regulars and U.S. troops were stationed along the perimeter to serve as blocking forces, and fleets of barges fitted out with "quad-fifties" (clusters of four .50-caliber machine guns) patrolled the rivers. But the object of the operation was not simply to trap Viet Cong, even though 286 were killed and 64 captured during the week. This time the Americans were bent on destroying the Iron Triangle as a Communist base...
Wednesday, January 4 ABC STAGE 67 (ABC. 10-11 p.m.).* "The Trap of Solid Gold" explores the familiar paradox of the executive who can't live on his income. Starring those newlyweds, Cliff Robertson and Dina Merrill...
WALKING HAPPY-singing brightly, dancing spritely, clapping loudly. A sort of My Fair Laddie, with British Beguiler Norman Wisdom as a Lancashire bootmaker who starts out so far below the stairs that he arrives onstage via a trap door...
...Hickenlooper pointed out (and the Times dutifully reported) that the paper has been a consistent critic of the U.S. role in Viet Nam; he complained that Hanoi would "let a New York Times reporter in but not objective reporters." Others speculated that Salisbury may have fallen into the same trap in Hanoi as he did in Pnompenh last June. At that time, he accepted at face value assurances from Cambodian officials that there was "probably" no such thing as a "Sihanouk trail" along which Hanoi was trucking supplies into South Viet...
...standard, drilling holes in a man's skull, sawing a trap door out of it, or sewing up the parchmentlike covering of his brain is a drastic opera tion. But does it constitute practicing medicine? This was the question that confronted a Justice Court jury in Redding, Calif., last week as Roger Whittaker, 26, went on trial, charged with the practice of medicine without a license. At the same time, Neurosurgeon George C. Stevenson was charged with having aided and abetted Whittaker by letting him do these things...