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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taken to another camp and eventually be sent to Cambodia for repatriation and release. Fearing that they were destined for North Viet Nam when they were moved out, they waited for a chance to escape. It came one suppertime as their three guards, carbines carelessly stacked against a tree, were digging into their rice bowls. Dodson yelled and leaped for the guns, came up with one while the startled Reds vanished into the bush. "I think the yell scared the V.C. more than the weapon," recalls an admiring Eckes...
Perched on the rugged shore of Cook Inlet, the remote Alaskan community of Tyonek might well pass for an upper-middle-class Midwestern suburb. Its 60 houses (average price: $25,000), all equipped with modern appliances and television, stand along winding, tree-lined streets. It has a glistening commu nity hall, its own airstrip and guest house. Construction is under way on a modern $737,000 schoolhouse; in the works are a power plant, fire station and store. Yet Tyonek's conspicuous prosperity is a remarkably recent phenomenon: until the last year or so, the Athabasca Indians who largely...
...Biddle Duke, his wife, two of her children, the U.S. deputy chief of mission, the ambassador's special assistant, the embassy press attache, two Spanish Foreign Ministry functionaries, six White House Secret Service men, 25 press photographers, and Lynda Bird watchers as thick as pears on a pear tree. After a few days, Lynda was lamenting that it was altogether too much...
Visibly rattled and muttering to himself, Palmer stepped up to the 16th tee, and proceeded to bounce his drive off a tree into the high grass. His second shot, a No. 3 iron, crawled less than 100 yds. through the rough. He had to hit a No. 9 iron just to get the ball back on the fairway. A stray No. 3 wood left Arnie trapped just off the green; he had to explode to within 4 ft. of the rim and sink the putt to salvage a six-"the greatest six I ever made." Another birdie by Casper...
...Barrow Island, a cyclone-swept wasteland off Western Australia that until now has supported only kangaroos, lizards and one lonely tree, an international team of roustabouts is drilling with intensity and anticipation. The Western Australian government last month declared Barrow to be an economically viable oilfield, expects that by 1968 it will be producing 20,000 bbl. daily for a group made up of Shell, Texaco, Standard Oil of California and Ampol, an Australian firm...