Word: combating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "Take a Deep, Deadly Breath" measures the mounting air pollution in U.S. cities and outlines steps to combat it. ABC's Peter Jennings discusses the crisis with Surgeon General William H. Stewart and rides a carbon monoxide-analyzing truck through New York City...
Though it was conceived as the world's most sophisticated combat aircraft, the F-lll has flunked many of its courses-mostly in political science. Last week Congress gave the swing-wing fighter-bomber its worst report card yet. A House-Senate Conference Committee recommended that the Navy model, the F-111B, not go into production until the plane shows beyond doubt that it can operate efficiently from aircraft carriers...
...ripe old age of 44, Air Force Colonel Robin Olds really should not be flying anything hotter than Charlie Brown's kite, but with four kills in his F-4C Phantom, he is the leading combat pilot of the Viet Nam air war (TIME, June 2). Now the Air Force has finally found a way to keep him down on the ground with the other old folks. The 1943 West Point graduate and World War II ace (twelve German planes) has been named commandant of cadets at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, effective...
...prize. Neither the centuries nor Etna, Sicily's restless mountain, had ever let the island sleep. Eight waves of plunderers had overrun it before the Normans arrived in 1061 to add it to their already extensive holdings in southern Italy. In 31 years of savage combat, the Normans subdued the Saracens, who then controlled Sicily, ushering in an era of nationhood and peace the likes of which the island had never known before-nor was ever to know again...
They were also masters of the art of combat, perhaps unequaled before or since. In the field, they enjoyed it when the odds were at least 20 to 1-against them. Espionage, reconnaissance, subversion, psychological warfare-they knew and practiced all these supposedly modern martial stratagems. To "psych" his adversaries before the siege of Palermo, the Norman commander, Roger de Hauteville, released a flock of captured carrier pigeons-after tying to their legs scraps of cloth soaked in Saracen blood...