Word: carrier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case of the lunar landing that NASA is still planning for 1969, the scientists on the panel believe that the exterior of the returning spacecraft will probably be free of lunar microorganisms. A more likely carrier of moon contamination will be the lunar soil and rock that the astronauts are planning to bring back with them. More than 40 universities and other scientific institutions have already asked for samples of this fascinating material, but the panel thinks their pleas should be rejected. It insists that the potentially dangerous moonstuff must be carried in germtight containers and must be stored when...
Running Out of Bridges. In the days after the lull lapsed, U.S. planes, almost without letup, prowled north of the 17th parallel. Carrier-based Skyraiders and Skyhawks plastered petroleum-storage facilities at Phuqui, 125 miles south of Hanoi, sending braided columns of orange flame and black smoke billowing hundreds of feet into the air. Navy jets took potluck, strafing targets along highways, rail lines and riverbeds from the 17th parallel to a point only 80 miles from Hanoi. Air Force Thunderchiefs made the deepest penetration yet by U.S. warplanes, streaking up to the Red River Delta town of Ninhbinh...
...Stringer Bernard Diederich, who was on a brief assignment in New York. The two flew to Puerto Rico, and since all civilian access to the Dominican Republic was closed, they went the military route. From San Juan harbor they were ferried by a U.S. Navy LST to the assault carrier Boxer, already en route to Dominican waters with the first contingent of marines. A Marine helicopter then flew them from the deck of the Boxer to the Embajador Hotel grounds in the center of the war-riven capital. From the hotel they gingerly worked their way to the nearby...
...Progress, huddling with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, CIA Boss William Raborn. As the situation grew more alarming by the hour, he snapped: "I will not have another Cuba in the Caribbean." At last orders went out to Task Force 124, centered on the aircraft carrier Boxer and with 1,800 combat-ready marines, to make flank speed for Santo Domingo. Another set of orders started the 82nd Airborne at Fort Bragg, N.C., toward its C124 and C-130 transports...
Specifically, and with President Johnson's approval, the conferees decided that there will be no diminution of U.S. air strikes north and south of the 17th parallel. Such strikes were carried out every day last week, with as many as 250 U.S. Air Force and carrier-based jets dropping everything from 750-lb. bombs to canisters packed with copies of President Johnson's recent speech expressing the U.S.'s willingness to enter into "unconditional discussions." By conservative estimate, U.S. and South Vietnamese flyers have knocked out 16 key bridges, badly damaged the principal north-south highway...