Word: airlift
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...Sent sweeps of Navy jet interceptors to cover 2,000 British paratroops, and gave Britain full diplomatic-military support, as Britain moved in to help the small, friendly nation of Jordan against subversion. The U.S. also set up an oil airlift to help run Jordan's utilities and defenses...
...knit fact for nearly two years, was identified and tabbed about three months ago as the Army desperately sought a role in the strategic-deterrent concept. Already 2,000 STRAC men have been geared to a constant two-hour alert at U.S. bases; the hurry-up ''Nixon airlift" of two companies of the zoist Airborne to Puerto Rico last fortnight showed what STRAC's advance guard could do. But the snag about STRAC as a whole is that it is dependent upon the Air Force's inadequate force of troop-carrier aircraft to be able...
...only chief of state to attend was Liberia's President William V.S. Tubman, who had taken over the entire fleet (two DC-3s) of the Liberian National Airways to airlift himself, his party and his 3,500 Ibs. of luggage (including a portable flagpole). By the time the Moroccan Foreign Minister arrived that night, Accra had a full house. It was a little disappointing that only one chief of state had shown, but with the exception of South Africa-which would not come unless colonial powers were invited-all of Africa's independent states, Arab and black, were...
...Airlift. All told during the seven-day stretch most Pennsylvania trains were either canceled or late, and so much mail (4,000,000 pieces) piled up that the post office organized an emergency airlift of four airlines to move it south and west. The great trouble, said Pennsy Vice President J. Benton Jones, was "under-maintenance." Most of the stalled engines were between 15 and 23 years old, many of them the same engines that broke down under similar conditions during the winter of 1942-43. Yet the Pennsy cannot afford to buy new engines...
Orphans' Airlift. For Bertha and Harry"Holt, as well as for the children, the hymn has a special meaning. Two and a half years ago Harry Holt flew to Korea, hunted through orphanages, disease-ridden huts and gutters, rounded up Korean babies fathered by American G.I.s and abandoned by their mothers, and took them home. Pushing a special law through Congress permitting them to adopt all eight children (U.S. law permits families to adopt only two), the Holts, with the help of their own six youngsters (now aged 11 to 24), set out to rear the Koreans as their...