Word: armored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such vehicles registered in Israel. Lining the streets or packed into bleachers, they will watch 4,000 uniformed Israelis wend their way through both the old and the new city. Jets will fly overhead, Centurion tanks will rumble past the ancient walls and 66 pieces of captured Arab armor will be displayed. Inaugurating its nationwide TV system, the Israelis will beam the spectacle to Cairo, Amman and other Arab capitals -just in case anyone is watching...
...crack at Olympic gold medals. Both Nash and Muir are white. For the blacks on South Africa's team, the loss is even greater: a chance to compete for the first time on an integrated basis-thereby carving a chink, however small, in South Africa's armor of prejudice...
...speakers agreed that Chinese intervention in South Vietnam is unlikely. Frank Armbruster, director of Guerrilla Warfare Studies at the Hudson Institute, said Saturday that the Vietnamese terrain is unsuited to the Chinese human-wave attacks. He pointed to the shortage of armor in the Chinese army and Chinese unfamiliarity with Vietnamese terrain...
...with helmets, spears and quaint buckled shoes. When the big moment came and he strode boldly forward, his feet got snarled in electrical cables and he tripped over the footlights almost into the lap of Senator Robert A. Taft. Hoisting himself back onstage, he tried to recover his fallen armor, only to be thrust forward again by the spear of the young man behind him. The audience convulsed; Ray fled...
Ultimate Compliment. In addition to longer-range rockets, the Communists now have a Russian-made close-in com bat rocket whose striking power is so great that it can penetrate ten inches of armor plating at a range of up to 550 yards. Variously called the RPG-7 or B-41, it was developed by the Soviets from the famed German World War II Panzerfaust. It weighs only 20 lbs., has a special sighting device for accuracy, and gives the common Communist fighter the ability to knock a hole in the most heavily armored U.S. tank...