Word: airdropping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paper have bought is a big 75-year-old house on an 80-acre tract in Manhasset, L.I. Known as Kiluna Farm, it is a house that won't quit, rambling up, down and on the bias; it looks like ten shingle farmhouses delivered all at once by airdrop. "The floors are sagging, but it's comfortable," says Mrs. Paley. The walls are under pressure too. They hold up the massive frames that surround an impressive private art collection...
...there is a maverick in every outfit; Reporter Roger Simmons of the Florence News nourished a newsman's distaste for military regulations and was unspoiled by Washington obeisance to protocol. Ignoring the ban, he climbed a barrier and assaulted the stands where McNamara was watching an airdrop of 4,000 paratroopers...
...combat readiness, Adams ordered the Carolina maneuvers, dubbed "Operation Swift Strike II.'' F-100 fighters roared low over the peanut and beanfields in close support of sweltering G.I.s armed with new M-14 rifles and M-60 machine guns. C124 cargo planes lumbered overhead to airdrop Jeeps to the troops below. During one exhausting night, 194 huge cargo planes of the Military Air Transport Service flew in 8,000 men of the 5th Mechanized Infantry Division and 6,000 tons of equipment from Fort Carson, Colo., 1,800 miles away...
...Christmas Island, there have been eight explosions of airplane-dropped atomic devices to check out new weapons designs, and one underwater shot to study antisubmarine techniques. Security rules prevented anyone from disclosing what the air tests showed, although California's Republican Representative Craig Hosmer described one airdrop at which he was an eyewitness: "It flashed brighter than the noonday sun. As the fireball developed, it turned to shades of orange, red and purple. Then a white mushroom cloud shot toward the heavens. The morning sun began to shine upon it, producing a new and beautiful kaleidoscope of colors...
Next day, as Sergeant Duarte and his men were laying out red markers in a field for a supply airdrop, Viet Cong snipers fired from the bush. The first bullets whizzed by within an inch of Duarte's head. He hit the dirt and, on signal, his Rangers began an enveloping movement that soon silenced the guerrillas. "Just the way they were taught in training," said Duarte proudly. "They're brave men and good soldiers." But he is both baffled and grudgingly impressed by the Communist enemy. Says Duarte: "The Viet Cong have the initiative. They also have...