Word: airstrip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along with the fishing camp came a patchwork holding of 3,530 acres and an abandoned World War II airstrip. Before McCulloch was able to buy an adjoining 12,990 acres (at $73 an acre) from the state of Arizona, he had to convince state officials that his plan would increase tax revenues. To create 25-sq.-mi. Havasu City, he gambled $500,000 on surveys, plans and engineering, even though the prospect looked so risky that C. V. Wood, 46, onetime Disneyland general manager and Convair chief industrial engineer, who is now Havasu City's master planner, told...
Anguish mixed with joy last night in Quincy's dining room-turned-airstrip as planes whooshed, wafted, and Watusied through the air in the three categories of competition, distance flown, duration aloft, and acrobatics...
...Finding dry land to implant batteries of howitzers is difficult. More armed helicopters could fill the gap, but they require airports, which in the Delta must be built up with imported gravel. Can Tho airfield proudly announces that it is seven feet above sea level, and the Bac Lieu airstrip sports a sign giving its elevation as "Dry season: two feet above sea level. Rainy season: two feet below sea level...
When a nine-man infantry squad set out one night this month to lay an ambush for the Viet Cong near the Bao Trai airstrip in the northern coastal region of South Viet Nam, Paul Widtfeldt Jr., an unarmed medical specialist, went along. Next morning, nine of the ten men were found shot through the head. Among them was redhaired, bespectacled Medic Widtfeldt, who had been killed while tending a dying buddy. For his courage, the Army revealed last week, Widtfeldt, 21, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, will be posthumously awarded a second Bronze Star; his first was presented in August...
...white and blue outhouse 50 yards from the airstrip at An Khe is notably different from all the others in the combat area of South Viet Nam. The men of the 1st Air Cavalry who carved the half-moon on the door have painted the inside blushing pink, and they have even equipped the little building with porcelain and plaster conveniences. "For lady correspondents," the troopers proudly explain. Their handiwork is eloquent testimony to the growing presence of Viet Nam's female press corps. From a total of two women last year, the roster of regulars has grown...