Word: airlifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...formal approval from its stockholders to become just plain Monsanto Co. Fairbanks Whitney, hoping to get an image with a bang from its gunmaking subsidiary, plans to rename itself Colt Industries. Riddle-Airlines, whose name has long been just that to many people, is about to switch to Airlift International Inc. Olin Mathieson is asking customers to "please, call us by our first name," and the onetime General Shoe Co. is nailing down its new name with a "Do You Know Genesco?" advertising campaign...
While never as clear-cut as it may appear in memory, the cold war in its early years - the years of Communist near-victories in Western Europe, of the Berlin airlift - was a worldwide drama in which there was little confusion about the identity of the heroes and villains. Most of the time, the Western Allies stood solidly together before the Communist menace...
...Diplomat Among Warriors have been quicker to assign blame and point morals. Certainly Robert Murphy was in a position to do so. For two decades his duties took him to the centers of crisis: North Africa, where he laid the groundwork for the U.S.-British landings; Berlin during the airlift; Belgrade, Panmunjom, the Middle East, London during the Suez crisis. But for the most part, Murphy was an implementer, not a maker, of policies. His qualities were composure under fire, persuasiveness and an encyclopedic grasp of detail...
...adviser to Military Governor Lucius Clay, was summoned with his boss to Washington to discuss the blockade. It consisted at that time of a wooden pole suspended across the highway at Helmstedt-and removable, Murphy was convinced, by a token show of force. The decision to launch the Berlin airlift seemed to him a serious mistake. The dramatic success of the airlift obscured the reality: that the U.S. had meekly surrendered its claims for "surface-level access." He did not resign, but he adds that he would feel better today about the episode...
Last week, neither steel plates nor prayers helped the hapless men who died in the biggest helicopter airlift of the Viet Nam war. Wave after wave of choppers-27 in all-droned onto an island in the mouth of the Mekong River 60 miles south of Saigon and disgorged 1,500 South Vietnamese marines, paratroopers and rangers. Simultaneously, in from the South China Sea swarmed an armada of junks and landing barges with another 1,000 men. On hand to observe the most ambitious strike against the Viet Cong in weeks were top brass, led by General Paul D. Harkins...