Word: troop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mediterranean stretch; they are regularly watched by a Swedish U.N. infantry company that has its headquarters in full view of the shore. In all, some 500 Turkish soldiers have landed there, helping to secure a solidly held 30-sq.-mi. area-an ideal beachhead in case a major Turkish troop intervention should be decreed by Ankara...
...young. Graduating high school students, wearing old-fashioned visored caps, swarm through the cities celebrating their freedom. Stockholm's pimply raggare, teenage rowdies who drive battered U.S. cars, roar up the Kungs-gatan, stop to pick up a nymphet, then roar off again. Mothers and children troop off to cottages beside gleaming lakes and fjords to sail, swim and hike until fall. Except that they usually adjourn to summer palaces, Scandinavia's royal princes and princesses follow much the same routine. This summer has been different-but then, it's not every year that royal families...
...orders read like the work of a bored general trying to inject a little life into a standard peacetime troop maneuver: the Colombian army and air force were to invade, conquer and hold the "Independent Republic of Marquetalia," a 1,400-sq.-mi. enemy enclave deep in the Andean highlands 170 miles southwest of Bogotá. But this war is real, and so is Marquetalia. Colombians know it as the stronghold of Pedro Antonio Marín, 34, alias "Tiro Fijo" (Sure Shot), last of the country's bigtime bandit chieftains...
When the Red Pathet Lao overran Laos' embattled Plain of Jars last month, the U.S. replied by sending unarmed jets swooping low over Pathet Lao territory. The purpose was partly to photograph troop movements, partly to demonstrate U.S. resolve to stand firm in the Red-threatened little kingdom. But last week, after Communist gunners shot down two American planes in two days, the U.S. decided that shooting back with cameras was not enough-and in a small way Southeast Asia's crisis began to "escalate...
Fade Out-Fade In is a musical comedy spoof of movies and moviemaking in the 1930s, but it unintentionally recalls a ritual of the prize ring-the introductory parade of ex-champs, somewhat fattened with age, who troop through the ropes, flash hearty grins at the crowd, and receive the perfunctory applause of nostalgic recognition. In more or less the same perfunctory way, Fade Out-Fade In gives walk-on-and-off bits of business to actors who play characters recognizable as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Shirley Temple and Bojangles Robinson, the Busby Berkeley chorines, Boris Karloff, Tarzan, Jean...