Word: civilianizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Civilian growth has been slow because, for all their land-on-a-dime convenience, helicopters are costly to buy, expensive to operate, relatively slow-moving (best cruising speed: 100 m.p.h.) and apt to be grounded on foggy days. All that is being rapidly changed, however, by competition for Government orders and bolder engineering to meet requirements in Viet Nam. The industry is pushing along helicopter development to produce craft that go faster, haul more, operate longer and require less maintenance-all to its eventual commercial benefit...
...occurred in Ben Cat last week when a V.C. terrorist stepped out of a crowd to hurl a grenade at U.S. troops passing on the street near by. Before he could throw it, a young Vietnamese in the crowd felled him with a flying tackle; time was when no civilian would have dared to raise a hand against the Reds...
...very nature of air reconnaissance by fire suggests a civilian hazard in built-up areas. By stitching a few random bullets through the underbrush, armed choppers hope to draw fire that will reveal a Viet Cong position. It often works; but now and then the bullets hit buffaloes, houses-or people...
...Threat. Louisianans were too weary to panic when Army engineers reported that a barge loaded with 600 tons of liquid chlorine was missing. If the chlorine should escape, the engineers warned, a wave of deadly gas might engulf the delta. (Civilian chemists disagreed, said it might even help purify the polluted water.) The river was closed to shipping for 40 miles below Baton Rouge while the Army brought in 116,000 gas masks, and a flotilla of Navy and Coast Guard ships searched for the barge. When divers finally found it after five days, its chlorine tanks were intact...
...past decade provided the wages for one in every twelve workers, leveled off last year and thus actually declined in relation to the nation's rising G.N.P. The economy is sufficiently resilient to cope with much sharper cuts in the military budget, by increased federal spending for civilian purposes, by tax reductions or, most likely, by a combination of both...