Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thousand propellers pierced the air at a dozen U.S. airbases from Texas to Virginia as 206 Military Air Transport Service planes hauled 15,278 soldiers to bases in Germany. Normally it would take six weeks to transport a full division overseas, even longer to get it into combat. Big Lift was designed to move a full armored division from the U.S. to Europe in 72 hours, equip it with heavy hardware "prepositioned" at depots near the front lines, and throw it into "combat" two or three days after arrival. Said General Paul Adams, boss of the U.S. Strike Command...
...that Big Lift caused all over the Continent (see cover story), Adams certainly had a point. Even before the operation got off the ground, statesmen in the NATO capitals were beginning to press the U.S. for assurances that it did not presage any large-scale pull-out of American combat troops from overseas bases. A slew of Administration officials, from Dean Rusk on down, hastened to offer such assurances, but nobody really seemed convinced...
...logistical exercise, Big Lift was a triumph. Despite occasionally impenetrable ground fog in Germany and Hurricane Ginny's winds off the Southeastern U.S., the Air Force flew 236 missions, toted 459.6 tons of combat gear, logged 13,000 flying hours and burned up 6,500,000 gallons of fuel-all without mishap...
...Thomas Seymour '64, president of the HCUA, said last night that Harvard had solved most of the problems which the Council will help schools to combat, but added that the college might benefit from association with other schools...
Pointing out that the civil rights movement was attempting to combat the economic as well as racial division of American society, the clergyman said that he hoped that Negroes who had learned to ignore class lines while demonstrating for racial equality would not settle for "easy integration" into the economic divisions of white society...