Word: mudding
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SMASHING TIME. En route to fame and fortune in swinging London, Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave mug their way through mud, sprayed paint and hurled pies amid a mod bedlam that is more goofy than spoofy...
...Seal team on a mission. Dropped by Navy river patrol boats deep into Viet Cong country southeast of Saigon in the swampy mangrove sector of Rung Sat, the Seals set up an ambush beside a small stream. There, for 14 long hours, they froze in position, hip-deep in mud, clad in camouflage suits and bush hats, their faces blackened. Their only communication was by tugs on a string running among them...
...miles through drifts to the White Water trading post, stuffed his burlap sack with groceries, and when Trader Cal Foutz asked why he had not ridden his horse, laconically replied: "The horse didn't want to go." Another Indian, bored by the snow-bound routine in his mud-and-wood hogan, went for a horseback ride and waved casually at a passing haylift helicopter- then was nearly bombed by bales of unneeded hay and canned goods...
...Mud Forts. Whether fighting well or poorly, the ARVN has always borne the brunt of the war in casualties. Last week Saigon reported that in the previous week 234 South Vietnamese soldiers and 166 Americans had been killed. In 1966, the U.S. lost 5,000 dead, the ARVN 11,500. This past year, government forces suffered 12,000 killed, the U.S. 10,000. South Vietnamese in uniform have, of course, always outnumbered American servicemen in Viet Nam. Today there are ten ARVN regular divisions, totaling some 321,000 men. Manning the vulnerable mud forts and watchtowers across the country...
...scene is London, with its wild ways and "soopah" swingers, where Lynn and Rita have come from the provinces to seek fame and fortune. En route to both, there is much stumbling into mud puddles, through roofs and down excavations. There is a paint-spraying scene in one restaurant and a pie-throwing scene in another (both of which seem endless), and a clumsy take-off of an art preview, in which mechanized sculpture chases people around and sprays some more paint on them...