Word: ace
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johhny Ace sang Pledging My Love...
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...soft-spoken Momyer (pronounced Moe-meyer) is the officer responsible not only for rolling the thunder over North Viet Nam but for directing all air operations in South Viet Nam in his role as deputy commander of MACV in Saigon. An Oklahoman who was a World War II fighter ace, Momyer has done so well at his job since he arrived in Viet Nam 18 months ago that President Johnson personally asked him to extend his tour of duty for at least another six months. Only last month, Momyer won his fourth general's star...
When it lost out to Boeing last January in the competition for the contract to develop the U.S.'s first supersonic transport plane, Lockheed Aircraft Corp. still had a multimillion-dollar ace up its sleeve. The Army had earlier awarded the company an $86 million development contract for an aircraft to ride shotgun for the vulnerable troop-carrying helicopters in Viet Nam. Last week at Van Nuys Airport, Calif., Lockheed put its answer in the air: a prototype of the radical AH-56A Cheyenne-a combination helicopter and fixed-wing plane-gave a 15-minute display of its capabilities...
Harvard was the only private institution among the top five universities in the NAS poll. Last year, six of the top ten schools in the ACE overall ratings were private...