Word: treks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charles de Gaulle opened the 10th Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France, last week, ABC-TV pulled off a display of space-age electronic wizardry that was right out of Star Trek. The dour visage of le grand Charles picked up by the color cameras was fed to a control unit at the Olympic stadium, beamed to ABC headquarters in Grenoble, relayed by cable to Paris, and then to the French satellite ground station at Plumeur-Bodou. There the video signal was converted into a radio signal, bounced off the Early Bird satellite hovering 22,300 miles over the Atlantic...
...Hershey's only concession to promotion was to turn over empty Hershey wrappers he spotted on the ground so that the brand name would show. His successors have also stuck to the soft sell. Their major promotion is openhanded hospitality to the 700,000 tourists a year who trek to Hershey, Pa.-"the town that chocolate built"- to smell the cocoa-scented air, photograph one another under the street sign at the Chocolate-Cocoa Avenue intersection, admire street lamps shaped like Hershey kisses and policemen uniformed in chocolate brown...
Formidable Adversary. The typical NVA soldier sent on the long trek to the South is a young Buddhist bachelor with the equivalence of a seventh-grade education. He is likely to come from a poor farm family in the rice-growing coastal lowlands, most often the Panhandle provinces directly above the DMZ. He is 21 and a draftee-a status reflecting the manpower strains that brought on North Viet Nam's full military mobilization in mid-1966. Only two years ago, the average North Vietnamese regular in the South was a 23-year-old volunteer. Even...
Glenn, on leave from the board chairmanship of Royal Crown International, retraced Henry Stanley's 1,000-mile trek, from Bagamoyo to Ujiji, in what is now Tanzania. The New York Herald headline hunter took 71 months to reach Missionary David Livingstone in 1871. Glenn made it in 51 weeks by foot, rail and Land-Rover. In the process, his documentary flashed back and forth artfully but not artily between Stanley's diary and line drawings of the day and troubled contemporary Tanzania. Glenn's words were not quite up to his pictures, though. By contrast with...
GREAT EXPLORATIONS: THE TRAIL OF STANLEY AND LIVINGSTONE (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). John Glenn and a 33-man safari trek 1,000 miles through Africa to re-create Journalist Henry Stanley's search for Dr. David Livingstone 100 years...