Word: waving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months the Thai government has been trying to come to grips with the sporadic Communist terrorism along the country's northeast frontier with Laos. Bangkok has devoted less attention to a similar but smaller wave of trouble far to the south, along the thin isthmus of Thailand that forms part of the Malay Peninsula. There, a pattern of forced "tax" collections, Red propaganda leaflets and occasional clashes with police patrols has suggested the presence of a regular second front of Communist guerrillas...
...greatest public-relations instrument is nylon. What we've got to do is make excellent movies"-not the sort of movies, he implies, that are being turned out by the M.P.A.A. members that hired him but rather those of the creative cinema of postwar Italy, the New Wave in France and now England. "The next creative center," he concludes, "will be here. We are educating an audience that will not accept the ordinary. We want the world to look at America and say, 'By golly, those Americans are really doing something...
...ENDLESS SUMMER. A dazzling ode to sun, sand and surf, starring two young Californians as they travel the globe in search of paradise: the perfect beach with the perfect wave...
...Battalion stumbled onto an estimated two Viet Cong battalions. In the first withering exchange of gunfire, all twelve men of the Australian leading group were killed or wounded. As a torrential rain began to fall, the Communists sought to tighten a noose around the Aussie company, charged in human-wave attacks that were repeatedly beaten back. The fighting was so intense that the Aussies almost ran out of ammunition, and their helicopters braved heavy ground fire and blinding rain to airlift more into the front line...
...that he was charging $1 for parking. That left only one access road through the jointly owned property of two avowed anti-nudists, and last week this too was closed with an armed guard to bar the way. But nothing seemed to daunt the enthusiastic nudists, who continued arriving wave on wave. Some made their way around the southern promontory at low tide; others formed human chains down the dangerous cliffside paths. All kept their sneakers on, at least until they hit the beach...