Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recruits-Michael Blasher, 24, a friend since their teens-either ignored or insulted him, says Johnson. When the men sat down at mess, there was a scramble to avoid Johnson's table. When they went into the field, seven or eight trainees would pile into one car, leaving Johnson and Blasher alone in another. When lessons were given in mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, the instructor showed how a hand kerchief could be used-in case any one was ever called upon to save a Negro. The word nigger was used freely, and because of their friendship, Blasher and Johnson...
...nearby Bien Hoa, Viet Cong took over the town and set up their own roadblocks. When two American G.I.'s were stopped, the Viet Cong hauled them from their car, delivered a "verdict" on them and summarily shot them for the benefit of the gathered townspeople. Some of Saigon's worst fighting took place in Cholon, the Chinese sector and a traditional stronghold of anti-government feeling. As elsewhere in the city, where resistance was heavy in house-to-house fighting, the ARVN warned the civilians out of the area, then called in helicopters to strafe and Skyraiders to dive...
...with another highway-patrol device, one that has proved considerably more accurate than simple speedometer pacing and more flexible in operation than radar tracking. It is known as VASCAR (Visual Average Speed Computer And Recorder) and consists of a small computer mounted in the front seat of a patrol car. By measuring time and distance and then converting them into an average-speed reading, it can clock automobiles coming, going or even crossing...
VASCAR is not only versatile; it is also easy to operate. When a cruising patrolman spots a car as much as a mile ahead and moving away from him fast, he waits for the suspected speeder to flash past a clearly defined landmark, such as an intersection, streetlamp, tree or signpost. The officer then flicks on the time switch, flicks it off when his quarry passes a second roadmark. Time is thus locked into VASCAR's computer. To measure the distance between the two reference points, the patrolman flips on the distance switch when he reaches the first point...
...later on, showed signs of rebounding at year's end. General Motors increased profits during the fourth quarter by 2% to pare its decline for the year to 9%. The company reported* total earnings of $1.63 billion on sales of $20 billion. Though the industry hopes for record car sales in 1968, the momentum of G.M., for one, is threatened by continued labor woes. With local walkouts curtailing production at company plants, some 84,000 G.M. workers were off the job at the end of last week...