" He danced the part, Walter Terry wrote, "as if he were Mercury subjected to a hotfoot.
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So, what say you and me hotfoot it to the airport and get on to that plane.
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Across town, hotfoot it to the second-generation shoe guru Gianvito Rossi's 10th-anniversary party for a glass of prosecco or three.
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I decided to take time off work the very next day and hotfoot it to Tel Aviv, to get ahead of any competitors.
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On certain days, I'll jog past a public park where scrums of 20-somethings hotfoot across the concrete and will feel an odd twinge in the gut.
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Steve McQueen might have famously rode a Triumph TR6 trophy to near freedom in The Great Escape, but even he was known to hotfoot it in a Husqvarna in his later years.
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Howard is only one of the many characters woven into "Mary Toft," and Palmer never resorts to pantomime — except, perhaps, for Nathanael St. André, the first surgeon to hotfoot it to Godalming.
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The big guys at CBS or the William Morris Agency are not gonna hotfoot it out to the Horn in Santa Monica where some unknown guy talks like a hillbilly and sings 'Pagliacci.
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In 19923, when two EDS employees were taken hostage during a revolution in Iran, he organized and paid for a successful private mission called Operation Hotfoot to rescue the men and bring them home.
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That hunky young Canadian Prime Minister makes Trump look like a used-car salesman, no argument, but didn't an earlier Canadian P.M. give the visiting H.M. Queen Elizabeth II a hotfoot at a state dinner?
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The result is Fred P doing what Fred P does best—laying down immaculately selected sleek house and techno that makes you want to hop on the next available bus and hotfoot it to the nearest club.
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The entries that caught my attention included BABY ALBUM, CHILD PRODIGY, TEEN VOGUE (which is making a name for itself for political coverage in addition to vogues that might be popular with teens), CAREEN (always a fun word), ADULT SWIM, SENIOR MOMENT (primarily because … because … I don't remember why, but trust me, it's a good one), PEE WEE, GHOST TOWN, ROOD, PILE IT ON, HOTFOOT IT, SLEEPS IN and ULM, mainly because it reminds me of this Monty Python sketch.
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During his first raid, an Indian boy named Hotfoot is injured by a rival tribe's arrow piercing through his upper arm, eventually crippling him. In an attempt to hide from his pursuers, Hotfoot stumbles upon a burial mound, watched over by its Spirit, Dead Eagle. It is Dead Eagle who chooses Hotfoot for a very important task: a terrible danger is coming, and in order to discover a way to avoid it, Hotfoot must seek out a quartz crystal called the Ulunsuti, which is guarded by a terrible snake known as the Uktena. To help him in his quest, Dead Eagle gives Hotfoot the ability to communicate with the dead, though Hotfoot will find that many will not speak to him later on.
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The latter were Auto Defense Choc guerrillas.Conboy, Morrison, p. 24. The original Hotfoot contingent rotated out of Laos in February 1960, to be replaced by Hotfoot II. The new crew began ranger training for the RLA's 1 Bataillon Parachutistes (1st Paratroop Battalion) and 2 Bataillon Parachutistes (2d Paratroop Battalion). As Hotfoot II left Laos on 29 June 1960, to be replaced by Hotfoot III, 2nd BP began erecting a new battalion encampment for itself at KM 22.
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Not only that, but Hotfoot's fear has been taken away as well. Reluctantly, Hotfoot accepts the mission.
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Brennan played with Auto Da Fé, then later with Dublin jazz band Hotfoot during the 1980s until it disbanded in 1987.
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The Operation Hotfoot moniker changed to Operation Monkhood.Conboy, Morrison, p. 50. On 19 April 1961, President Kennedy made a symbolic gesture in allowing the PEO to publicly become a MAAG; PEO members were allowed to don uniforms and resume usual public military courtesies. At the same time, the Hotfoot V teams were also renamed as Operation White Star.
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In the simulation, The High brought Hotfoot and Johnny Ray-Gun to the Paladins' headquarters where he subsequently 'killed' and freed the said team after they were tricked by the Eidolon (for his own amusement) into believing that The High was the "Antichrist" who was responsible for the events of Armageddon. After killing the Paladins and leaving only Hotfoot alive, The High was contacted by Welles, who stated to him that she would end the lives of everyone inside the simulation as per her orders from the American government. Before 'killing' Hotfoot, The High told him to find Welles as fast as he could once he was awake, while he tried to reason with her. Hotfoot immediately searched through the bunker and finally stopped Welles from initializing the 'kill button' by vibro-phasing his hand through her head, inducing brain damage.
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The design was built by Hotfoot Boats in Canada, but the company is no longer in business and the boat design is now out of production.
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Having been delayed in arrival, the Hotfoot contingent now found itself balked by Lao internal politics. While waiting for the local political situation to clear, the Hotfoot specialists hunkered in training centers at Luang Prabang, Savannakhet, Pakse, and Vientiane. They surveyed the Royal Lao Army as they waited. By the time they were free to begin training at the beginning of September 1959, they had an excellent idea of the retraining task before them.
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The 107 Green Berets of Project Hotfoot arrived on 24 July 1959. Led by Arthur D. "Bull" Simons, the dozen eight-man teams were shared out three per training base at Luang Prabang, Pakse, Savannakhet, and Vientiane. Even as the Operation Hotfoot teams began weapons training and the French military mission taught tactics, the RLA was losing a series of skirmishes in Xam Neua near the Vietnamese border. The training was held in abeyance while the Green Berets surveyed the situation.
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Project Hotfoot (also known as Operation Hotfoot, originally known as Operation AmbidextrousAnnie Jacobsen, "Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins," (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2019), p. 112 ) was a secretive military training mission from the United States in support of the Kingdom of Laos. It ran from 22 January 1959 through 19 April 1961. Working in civilian clothing in conjunction with a French military mission, it concentrated on technical training of the Royal Lao Army.
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On 24 July 1959, the Mobile Training Teams arrived in Vientiane. Augmented by a control team 11 strong, the force was dubbed Project Hotfoot (Operation Hotfoot for security purposes); it was also known by the official but little-used title of the Laos Training Advisory Group. They were to work for the PEO as a training arm, teaching Lao soldiers the use of the M1 Garand, Browning Automatic Rifle, M1 Carbine, bazooka, M18 recoilless rifle, and both 60mm and 81mm mortars. The Green Berets were commanded on site by Lieutenant Colonel Arthur D. Simons.
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The Hotfoot 27 is a Canadian sailboat that was designed by Doug Hemphill as racer-cruiser and first built in 1981.Sherwood, Richard M.: A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, Second Edition, pages 186-187. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994.
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Operation Hotfoot had suffered five killed in action during its duties.Conboy, Morrison, p. 53.Hall, pp. 331–332. When Lieutenant Colonel Simons later organized the Raid on Son Tay, he would call upon men who served with him in Laos, such as Richard Meadows and Elliott P. Sydnor, Jr..Hall, pp. 411–413.
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Official American reactions to the situation were mixed. In Vientiane, American officials, the Project Hotfoot teams, and the Programs Evaluation Office did not choose a side. However, a shadow PEO of about 40 Americans was formed in Savannakhet to support Phoumi because he was an avowed anti-communist. He began broadcasting anti-Kong Le radio messages on 18 August.
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Nine of the Mobile Training Teams were matched with French training teams at regional training camps. Three teams were assigned to build a new training facility northeast of Vientiane on Route 13 at Kilometer 22. This center would be an all-Hotfoot operation, with no French involved. Nearby, at Kilometer 17, they built a ranger training center.
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The Hotfoot 27 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a fractional sloop rig, a raked stem, a vertical transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel. It displaces and carries of ballast. The boat has a draft of with the standard keel fitted.
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A ceasefire was sought. Simultaneously, the Programs Evaluation Office shed its civilian guise and went above ground to become a Military Advisory Assistance Group. Emblematic of the change, the Hotfoot teams donned their U.S. uniforms and became White Star Mobile Training Teams. The truce supposedly went into effect the first week of May, but was repeatedly breached by the communists.
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Molly Leigh (1685–1746) was an English woman who was accused of witchcraft, died before being tried, and had her grave disturbed following claims that she still haunted the town. The 20th-century witch Sybil Leek claimed to be a descendant of Leigh's, and took to keeping a jackdaw, named Mr. Hotfoot Jackson, around with her, just as Leigh had done.
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Am I Right is a popular music and humor website dedicated to topics as song parodies,Schofield, Jack. "Online: Web watch: Pie eyed", The Guardian, 2002-08-29, p. 6. misheard lyrics (mondegreens),Berman, A. S. "Hotfoot it to a matchless site", USA Today, 2002-06-04, p. D3.Anderson, Laurie Smith. "Mondegreens chronicled in books and Web sites", The Advocate, 2001-10-14, p. H1.
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The wardrobe department kitted Nikki out with a plain dress code. Blake told Susan Riley of Soaplife that "Nikki's clothes are slowly getting trendier but she's very dowdy. When I used to see how frumpy I looked on-screen, I'd hotfoot it down to wardrobe and try to lose a few of her outfits." When Blake first joined the show she was styling a shorter hair cut.
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Also during the blaze, a bear cub who the men had previously seen ducking in and out of the forest survived the fire by climbing a tree and hanging onto the windward side with only singes and other survivable injuries. He was rescued by the firefighters and named Hotfoot, before filling the role of Smokey Bear. Smokey Bear Vista Point overlooks some of the wildfire's site in Lincoln National Forest.
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In the limo on the way to the wedding Julie's water breaks... all over Renee's dress. They make a quick stop at Gaby's department store to get a new wedding dress. While they are busy stealing/borrowing the dress, Susan jumps into the driver's seat of the limo and takes Julie to the hospital. Gaby and Renee emerge and when the limo is gone they hotfoot it to the wedding.
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Souphanouvong was then arrested and imprisoned, along with his aides. The two Pathet Lao battalions, one after the other, escaped during the night with no shots fired, taking their equipment, families, and domestic animals with them. On 23 May, Souphanouvong and his companions also escaped unscathed. In July, U.S. Special Forces Mobile Training Teams from the 77th Special Forces Group, working under the code name Hotfoot, began training the Royal Laotian army.
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Count Pahlen was a grey horse bred in the United Kingdom by Tony Villar. He was sired by Hotfoot who won the Coronation Stakes and finished second in both the Irish 2000 Guineas and the Prince of Wales's Stakes. The best of his other progeny included Hot Grove (runner-up in The Derby) and Tachypous (Middle Park Stakes). Count Pahlen's dam Tanara showed some ability as a racehorse, winning four minor races over middle distances.
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She was descended from the Irish Oaks winner Snow Maiden, the female-line ancestor of several major winners including King of Kings. Count Pahlen raced in the colours of Villar's wife and was sent into training with Bruce Hobbs at the Palace House stable in Newmarket. Hobbs had previously trained both Hotfoot and Tanara, as well as Tanara's sire Romulus. The colt was named after the Russian courtier Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen.
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At the U.S. Embassy, Brigader General John Heintges was labeled the head of the "Program Evaluation Office." During the summer of 1959, North Vietnam invaded Laos, which made the U.S. believe that its chances of success become even lower. They believed that the anti-Pathet policies had little chance of success due to the invasion. The U.S. Special Forces Group, code- named Hotfoot under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Arthur "Bull" Simons, penetrated Laos.
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Moderates, probably including Ho Chi Minh and General Võ Nguyên Giáp, were reluctant to support a revolutionary struggle in South Vietnam. However, Party members, in the words of one historian, were convinced that they "could no longer continue to advocate restraint without losing the control and allegiance of the southern communists as well as the reunification struggle with Diệm." ;22 January-19 April 1961 Under Project Hotfoot United States Army Special Forces secretly began training the Royal Lao Army.
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A second Hotfoot contingent rotated in for duty. However, now that the PEO began to make progress on the military task of upgrading the RLA, internal political disagreements began to hamper them, as elections were slated for 24 April 1960. Once again, the PEO carried out a civic action program meant to influence voters to support anticommunist candidates for office. This was successful to the extent that the Pathet Lao lost an election widely perceived as fraudulent.
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At Royal Ascot he started 11/10 favourite for the ten furlong Prince of Wales's Stakes and won by five lengths from Wolver Hollow, breaking the track record by four seconds. The colt then developed a respiratory infection and was off the course for three months. Connaught returned in the Scarborough Stakes over ten furlongs at Doncaster in September. His temperamental problems resurfaced as he was very reluctant to leave the pre-race paddock before finishing third to Karabas and Hotfoot.
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Connaught began his fourth season by winning the Westbury Stakes (now the Gordon Richards Stakes) at Sandown in May at odds of 1/2 in "most convincing" style from Royal Rocket. In June he attempted repeat his 1969 success the Prince of Wales's for a second time. Starting the 10/11 favourite, he won by four lengths from Hotfoot and broke his own course record. In the Eclipse Stakes he started at odds of 5/4 against two opponents; Karabas and Nor.
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Kong Le was further disgruntled by the RLA's failure to pay his men while they were on the combat sweep. By December 1959, Kong Le and his paratroop battalion were bivouacked at Wattay Airfield outside the Lao capital of Vientiane. Camp Sikhay offered the paras a choice of battered wooden shacks or decaying French colonial housing on the banks of the Mekong River. Kong Le made connections with the Project Hotfoot Special Forces who were building a ranger training course nearby.
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Under incoming American President John F. Kennedy, Hotfoot was rapidly expanded. Andrew Jackson Boyle had just been appointed as chief of the PEO; on 31 January 1961, just after the 19 January inauguration, he requested nine more training teams. His rationale was that every existing or forming battalion in the Royal Lao Army should have an American advisor. The Pentagon signed off on the request, with three packets each consisting of three teams staggering their arrivals in Laos from March through May 1961.
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Tachypous was a "rangy, most attractive" bay horse with white socks on his hind feet bred by his owner George Cambanis. He was sired by Hotfoot who won the Coronation Stakes and finished second in both the Irish 2,000 Guineas and the Prince of Wales's Stakes. The best of his other progeny included Hot Grove (runner-up in The Derby) and Count Pahlen. Tachypous's dam Stilvi was bought by Cambanis as a yearling and became a top- class racehorse, winning the King George Stakes and Duke of York Stakes before becoming an outstanding broodmare.
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Potter was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1960. He attended St. John's Lutheran School, Gilmour Academy, and the Friends School in Cleveland (later the School on Magnolia). In 1979, he founded the Black Snake record label, on which he released two albums of his own solo guitar compositions, as well as a 45 rpm single of a bluegrass version of Devo's "Mongoloid" by the Hotfoot Quartet. He later attended Goddard College and The Evergreen State College; he earned his Ph.D. in English Literature from Brown University in 1991.
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Porky answers the door to find Daffy, a pushy insurance salesman representing the Hotfoot Casualty Underwriters Insurance Company, who tries to convince Porky to purchase an insurance policy promising $1 million for a simple black eye. Although Porky is briefly tempted, he shows Daffy to the door. Daffy, unwilling to give up, returns and follows Porky around the house, warning him of the dangers of everyday domestic life. When Porky lights a match to retrieve a screwdriver from the oven, Daffy reminds Porky of the risk of explosion, urging him to use a flashlight instead.
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Midnight was resurrected at the end of the chapter thanks to a mad scientist. Eventually two more colorful characters joined the gang, inept private detective Sniffer Snoop and his pet Hotfoot, a baby polar bear. Like the other Quality characters, Midnight was bought by DC Comics after Quality Comics folded in 1956, but has not been extensively used. Like most other Golden Age heroes, he made an appearance in Roy Thomas' All-Star Squadron, which Thomas used to feature every Golden Age character owned by DC. He also worked with the Freedom Fighters for some time.
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As described in a film magazine, Mary Adams (Novak), her sister Betty (Salter), and her dying father arrive at the town of Thirsty Center which is ruled by "Selfish" Yates. After the death of her father, Mary scrubs the floors of the dance hall and cooks for Yates. However, soon her finer qualities awaken a spark of manhood in Yates and he sets her to work teaching his protege Hotfoot. After rescuing Mary from his unscrupulous manager, Yates decides to dispose of his dance hall and devote the rest of his life to righteous living and making Mary happy.
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At the Curragh Racecourse near Dublin two weeks later, Right Tack became the first winner of the 2000 Guineas to win the Irish 2000 Guineas as he won impressively by two and a half lengths form Hotfoot. Right Tack returned to England for the St. James's Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot in June. He overcame interference to win by half a length from Habitat in a particularly rough race, which led to the runner-up's jockey, Lester Piggott, being given a seven-day suspension. After this race, Right Tack contracted a respiratory infection and did not run again for three months.
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Bill Kingsford, a prizefighter called the Panama Kid (Eddie Albert), returns to his hometown with his trainer Hotfoot (William Frawley (who later played "Fred Mertz" on I Love Lucy) and valet Snake Eyes (Mantan Moreland) when his father (Lloyd Corrigan) is accused of embezzling. Bill becomes involved with his father's ravishing secretary (Peggy Moran), who tips him off that she overheard a couple men planning to ambush Bill while he investigates his father's scandal. When one of those men is killed, police mistake the dead body's for Bill. He uses the time to solve the mystery and clear his dad's name.
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Finally arriving in Hotfoot, Cool Cat spots two horses playing human shoes, and a "Horse Doctor" who really is an equine. After that, Cool Cat spots a "Topless Saloon" and heads in, but finds out that the only topless person in there is the bartender, a rather burly man. An outlaw named Gower Gulch then arrives and seemingly challenges Cool Cat to a duel, but then settles for a game of poker. Cool Cat gets a good hand with four Aces, only for Gulch to get a Royal Flush and subsequently pull out his six shooter.
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Local crews who had come from New Mexico and Texas to fight the blaze removed the cub from the tree. The original Smokey Bear, playing in his pool at the National Zoo, sometime during the 1950s. At first he was called Hotfoot Teddy, but he was later renamed Smokey, after the icon. New Mexico Department of Game and Fish Ranger Ray Bell heard about the cub and took him to Santa Fe, where he, his wife Ruth, and their children Don and Judy cared for the little bear with the help of local veterinarian Dr Edwin J. Smith.
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Air America—the name changed on March 26, 1959, primarily to avoid confusion about the air proprietary's operations in Japan 16—provided essential transportation for the expanding American effort in Laos. Since the Laotian government wanted U.S. assistance to remain secret in the Laotian Civil War against the Pathet Lao, the CIA established a unit from the United States Army Special Forces who arrived on the CIA proprietary airline Air America, wearing civilian clothes and having no obvious U.S. connection. These soldiers led Meo and Hmong tribesmen against Communist forces. The covert program was called Operation Hotfoot.
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In the 1970s and 1980s he had a residence with Red Peters in the Meeting Place in Dorset Street in Dublin and played with the Floating Dublin Blues Band, Christy Moore, Dónal Lunny, Mary Coughlan, Paul Brady and Luka Bloom. At the end of the 1980s he went on to play with the Fleadh Cowboys, Hotfoot and regularly accompanied Kieran Halpin. He could play in a number of styles: blues/rock, folk, traditional, country or even in the jazz style of Django Rheinhardt. His main instrument was a red 1967 Fender Stratocaster but he also played a Gibson ES335 which he got in California.
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After the Korean War (1950–1953) was over, then-2nd Lieutenant Beckwith served as a Platoon Leader with Charlie Company, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division in South Korea. In 1955, Beckwith was assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division as the commander of the combat support company of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment. In 1958, after completing Ranger School, Beckwith joined the Special Forces and was assigned to the 7th Special Forces Group. In 1960, then-Captain Beckwith deployed to Laos for two years on Operation Hotfoot. In 1962, Beckwith was sent as an exchange officer to the British 22 Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) where he commanded 3 Troop, A Squadron.
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Six Laotian Armed Forces training Centres (French: Centres de Formation des Forces Armées Laotiénnes – CFFAR) were established jointly by the French and U.S. Operation Hotfoot mobile training team advisors at Khang Khay in Military Region 2 (MR 2), at Kilometre 17 (KM 17) and Kilometre 22 (KM 22) both located northeast of Vientiane on Route 13, and at Luang Prabang, Savannakhet and Pakse between July 1959 and March 1960, in order to provide basic infantry and Ranger training to both regular RLA and irregular SGU Laotian troops.Conboy and Greer, War in Laos 1954–1975 (1994), pp. 7-8.Conboy and Morrison, Shadow War: The CIA's Secret War in Laos (1995), pp. 23–24.
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In 1957, he was assigned to MAAG, Vietnam, and served as the senior advisor to the commanding general, 5th Military Region (Mekong Delta). In October 1958, he was assigned as commanding officer, 77th Special Forces Group (now the 7th SFG) where he was instrumental in initiating Special Forces operations in Southeast Asia. In 1959, as commander of the 77th SFG, Blackburn spearheaded Operation Hotfoot and it follow on, Operation White Star, in Laos.Guardia, p. 155. Operation White Star, which lasted from July 1959 to October 1962, used U.S. Army Special Forces to support the Royal Laotian government in operations against the Pathet Lao communist insurgency. Following his command of the 77th SFG, Blackburn attended the 1960 class of the National War College and graduated in 1961.
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Alerted to the strike team's arrival, Doctor Sin killed the team with the bunker's defense system, leaving only the team's leader, Lieutenant Welles, to survive and enter the bunker. In the NOTB simulation, The High met and told two heroes, Johnny Ray-Gun and speedster Hotfoot, of their imprisonment with support from Sgt. Stringer, who then revealed to The High that the only way to be free from the simulation was for the prisoners to be 'killed' or 'die'. In the real world, Doctor Sin planned on escaping from the bunker; he faked his death by bringing one of the Paladins, Aeronaut, (who bore a strong facial resemblance to the villain) in his place to be killed by Lt. Welles.
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Air America U-10D 222x222px Douglas DC-6A at Saigon, Tan Son Nhut Airport From 1959 to 1962 the airline provided direct and indirect support to US Special Forces "Ambidextrous", "Hotfoot", and "White Star", which trained the regular Royal Laotian armed forces. After 1962 a similar operation known as Project 404 fielded numerous US Army attachés (ARMA) and air attachés (AIRA) to the US embassy in Vientiane. From 1962 to 1975, Air America inserted and extracted US personnel, provided logistical support to the Royal Lao Army, the Hmong Army under command of Royal Lao Army Major General Vang Pao and combatant Thai volunteer forces, transported refugees, and flew photo reconnaissance missions that provided intelligence on Viet Cong activities. Its civilian-marked craft were frequently used, under the control of the Seventh/Thirteenth Air Force, to launch search and rescue missions for US pilots downed throughout Southeast Asia.
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The company was formed in November 1982 as a consulting firm, before transforming into development the following year. The Reidys targeted the then recently released ZX Spectrum, and initially attempted to write business software, producing the Visicalc clone Omnicalc, but quickly realised that the future for the machine lay with games after their first effort, a cassette containing Crevasse and Hotfoot, received a good review in Sinclair User. After recruiting local artist and family friend Keith Warrington, they released one of their best known and critically acclaimed games, Skool Daze in 1984, which sold 50,000 copies and Crash described as "excellent value, plenty to do, addictive, unusual" and followed it up with Back to Skool in 1985, which drew similar praise. When interviewed, the Reidys said that they used no compilers or assemblers, and designed everything on pencil and paper, adding the raw, hand assembled Z80 machine code onto the computer.
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Cool Cat is driving to the town of Hotfoot one day, when his route happens to take him through an Indian reservation. Two scouts spot him and one of them gives chase, only to fall into a chasm when the weight of him and his horse causes the makeshift bridge to collapse (even though it had carried Cool Cat and his car without trouble). Cool Cat rescues them and continues his journey. He misses the "pale-face" but encounters a man who tries to give his obese daughter away, a man with an arrow in his scalp, a Native American who uses a stenograph-like device to create smoke signals which read "Cool Cat go home," a more attractive woman that invites him for an "Indian Wrestle" (which turns out to be a fight with a man who is far larger than Cool Cat), a Groucho Marx imitator and a literal bareback rider.
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The 1968 race was canceled due to lack of snow, and with a purse of just $1,000, only 12 mushers participated in the second event in 1969. While initially a success, enthusiasm had waned. Redington wanted to expand the race, from Knik to the historic gold rush town of Iditarod, but changed the end-point to the more- recognizable Nome, more than 1,000 miles (1,600 km) away. In 1969 he promised there would be a purse of $50,000. Despite widespread skepticism, the trail was cleared and a total of $51,325 was raised. In 1973, Dick Wilmarth of Red Devil, Alaska, and his lead sled dog Hotfoot beat a pack of 34 mushers who competed in the race to Nome. Negative publicity caused by the death of several dogs during the race reduced the purse to only $31,000 in 1974, but the event still attracted a field of 44 mushers. In 1975, the race instituted stronger dog care requirements, and a corporate sponsor raised the purse back to $50,000.
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