Word: bases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bassett, an outgoing Air Force major who was to have taken a 60-minute walk in space during the flight toting an instrument-crammed, 166-lb. pack on his back, served as a fighter pilot in Korea and a test pilot at California's Edwards Air Force Base before joining the space program...
...example, the Victoria Supreme Court upheld the misprision conviction of a man who knew who shot him but refused to tell the police. In England in 1961, the House of Lords upheld the similar conviction of a man who had discovered an arms theft at a U.S. Air Force base but failed to report it. In the U.S., says Goldberg, misprision of felony is a perfectly viable common-law charge in Vermont, a statutory offense in Maine, and a 176-year-old federal crime (U.S. Code, Title 18, Section 4), which is punishable by a $500 fine...
antennas (to warn dragsters coming up the other side of the dune). For the first competitive event, they lined up a few hundred feet from the base of an enormous 45°, 300-ft. dune; then each buggy in turn spewed out buckets of sand as it charged upward, bucking furiously...
...year. During January, bank credit expanded at 20% a year, double the already high rate of the past five years. Skilled labor has become so scarce that Inland Steel is trying to fill 600 job vacancies, is recruiting as far away as 400 miles from its East Chicago base. Detroit automakers are hiring unemployed Appalachia mountaineers to sweep floors -at $3 an hour. For its part, the Government has poured on more inflationary fuel: the national income accounts budget, which measures how much money the Government adds to or drains from the economy, has shifted from a $4 billion surplus...
Five agile, mobile, and hostile Radcliffe girls flipped their way to medals Sunday in the Armed Forces Judo Tournament--Women's Division--at Newport Naval Base...