Word: subzero
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clothing is completely up to you, but make sure that you are warm enough. The sharpest and tightest pants with stripes on the sides don't help you in subzero temperatures unless you have long underwear. Snow bunnies may admire you beautiful haircut and lots of grease (kid . . .) in it, but frozen ears can harm this picture considerably...
Clothing is completely up to you, but make sure that you are warm enough. The sharpest and tightest pants with stripes on the sides don't help you in subzero temperatures unless you have long underwear. Snow bunnies may admire you beautiful haircut and lots of grease (kid ... ) in it, but frozen ears can harm this picture considerably...
...route, the radiator froze in the subzero weather. That fixed, they were only a few miles farther when a tire blew out. The kids were crying and the wives shivering with cold and panic when, at last, they arrived at Drewitz, the most heavily guarded checkpoint on the entire Autobahn to Berlin. It was no time to stop and reconsider...
TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY, by John Steinbeck (246 pp.; Viking; $4.95). Put a famous author behind the wheel of a three-quarter-ton truck called Rocinante (after Don Quixote's horse), equip him with everything from trenching tools to subzero underwear, send along a pedigreed French poodle named Charley with prostatitis. follow the man and dog on a three-month, 10,000-mile trip through 34 states, and what have you got? One of the dullest travelogues ever to acquire the respectability of a hard cover. Vagabond Steinbeck's motive for making the long, lonely journey is admirable...
...Korean war, Puller led the landing at Inchon. Then the Chinese Communists came swarming across the Yalu, and once again, the marines handed the toughest job to Puller. He was put in command of the rear guard that was to cover the marines' retreat in subzero weather from the Chosin reservoir. Ordered to abandon equipment and vehicles, Puller not only kept everything he had but collected many trucks that the Army had abandoned along the way. He loaded the wounded into trucks and Jeeps, strapped frozen bodies on bumpers and hoods, and set out to fight...