Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bases, knocked out 127 antiaircraft batteries, shattered 34 bridges. In their wake the planes left ablaze 17 destroyed truck convoys and an equal number of weapons-carrying trains, along with 20 radar stations, 33 naval craft and the entire Dong Hoi airbase. Yet even as the bomb line crumped closer to crowded Hanoi, there was no sign of Ho's flinching...
...second danger that the U.S. sees in bombing closer to Hanoi is that some Russians might be killed. That danger became a greater probability last week when U.S. intelligence sources reported that there were five surface-to-air missile sites going up around Hanoi. The SAM sites describe a nearly complete circle around the capital, and may well be manned by Soviet technicians. The birds themselves-perhaps six to a site-are the same that brought down an American U-2 over Cuba in 1962. They can pluck a plane from the sky at an altitude...
Balancing Act. After estimating in January that the deficit for fiscal 1965 would be $6.3 billion, the Treasury two weeks ago reduced the estimate to only $3.6 billion, smallest since the surplus year of 1960. Last week came still another indication that the budget is moving closer to balance. The Treasury Department's daily statement for June 30-the last day of fiscal 1965-showed a deficit of only $900 million in all the Government's accounts, including social security. Though many overdue bills and receipts may come in later and change the final figures, the trend...
...Masterful Feat." In the cockpit, Kimes was nursing the crippled plane closer to Travis. As he approached the airbase, he discovered that the hydraulic system had failed and that the landing gear would not lower automatically. Now down to an altitude of only 700 ft., Kimes made a wide, climbing circle while Engineer Robertson and Second Officer Webb cranked the wheels down manually. Then Robertson crawled down through a hatch in the cockpit floor to insert a pin in the nose wheel to guard against its collapsing-a required procedure when hydraulic pressure fails...
...profit this year on sales of $65 million-that Klein plans to add 100 more theaters to the chain in the next three years. The expansion wil not only take National into the metropolitan areas of the East for the first time but will bring it much closer in size to front-running American Broadcasting-Paramount, which operates 407 movie houses. All of the new expansion will involve drive-ins or theaters in shopping centers. Says Klein: "The big thing for the family today is to do everything in a package-go shopping, have dinner, go to a movie. Nobody...