Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refused to say, but whatever it was prompted India's Central Bureau of Investigation to assign a team of topflight investigators to try and track down Walcott. His trail led first to Europe again, then doubled back to Pakistan, where he showed up with a converted B-26 bomber shortly before last autumn's border war. The Pakistanis suspected that he was air-dropping watches and gold into India, but before they could interrogate him, Walcott skipped off, leaving the plane behind...
...sober W. C. Fields. He decided to become a plane builder at twelve, joined Lockheed as soon as he won a master's in aeronautics from the University of Michigan. His drawing-board magic has created 19 of Lockheed's famed planes. Among them: the Hudson bomber, P-38, P-80, Constellations...
...both Boeing and Lockheed) in 1965. North American's bread and butter is space-NASA's Apollo moon vehicles, Saturn space boosters, Air Force rocket engines and missile-guidance systems. But its fortunes started skidding in 1964 when the Government canceled development of the XB-70 supersonic bomber, into which the company had plunged $1.4 billion. Now the escalation of the Viet Nam war is bringing cutbacks in NASA spending, and North American is not even in the running for any of the major awards...
...Cost. An inherent danger in Lyndon Johnson's order to resume bombing the North is that it may inspire exaggerated hopes that it will assure a quick and relatively inexpensive victory. It will not, for Viet Nam remains a ground war, and the bomber runs north of the 17th parallel, however effective, can only help protect the allied infantryman and harass the enemy...
...fell from a U.S. Air Force B-52 when it collided with a refueling tanker over Spain's coast on Jan. 17. Three of the bombs landed on Spanish soil and were readily recovered. The fourth fell into the sea just short of Almeria. Fishermen quickly rescued the bomber's four survivors but not the bomb. Some 2,000 American servicemen from Spanish bases undertook the search. To be sure, none of the deadly, multimegaton nuclear-bomb cases was armed, and all were packaged in radiation-proof shells. But, just the same, everyone wanted all of them found...