Word: 25s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From all appearances Fort Wainwright Field outside of Fairbanks might have been launching World War II bombing runs. Antique B-25s, the first U.S. planes to raid Tokyo, lumbered down the runway as old Liberator bombers tested their engines for takeoff. The planes were engaged in a different kind of warfare. More than 2.8 million acres of Alaska's timber and tundra-an area more than twice the size of Delaware -have burned this year. The planes' mission: dropping chemicals to slow the fires' advance...
...good if belated choice for Man of the Year [Jan. 6]; the "under 25s" have been the men and women of every year...
...under 25s" are indeed mostly great people, quite prepared to meet the challenges that lie ahead. Making reasonable allowance for the changing context of the times, this is neither more nor less than could have been said in 1957, 1947, 1937, and probably much earlier. (PROFESSOR) JOHN ROGER FREDLAND U.S. Naval Academy Annapolis...
...Perhaps the Man of the Year award should have been given to the preceding and older generation. It is their progress that has enabled us "under 25s" to read more, see more, and understand more. By observing the failures, successes and trials of our predecessors, we have come to a conclusion: Whatever we're going to do, we have to do it NOW. We can't wait, and neither can the rest of the world...
...region 90 miles east of Caracas. There, for the past three weeks, the government has been mounting a small war against an estimated 100 to 300 guerrillas. Acting on a tip from loyal peasants, the government brought in combat troops to wipe out the Castroites. Venezuelan air force B-25s swept overhead, dropping anti-personnel bombs; 105-mm. artillery shelled the heavily wooded hillsides-a tactic more likely to produce a psychological than a military advantage. In 21 days of sniping and patrol-sized fire fights, seven Castroites were killed and 26 captured (the Venezuelan army did not report...