Word: comely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weapons that the U.S. has in Viet Nam: B-52 raids. Despite what he called a "strong recommendation" from General Creighton Abrams, the U.S. commander in Viet Nam, Laird suggested reducing B-52 sorties by more than 10%, from 1,800 to 1,600 per month. The savings would come chiefly in the planes' 30-ton bomb loads, which cost $42,000. There would be little tactical impact; probably the same number of B-52 missions will be flown as before, but they may involve five planes rather than the standard...
...catalytic federal funds, hoping that private industry will provide the rest over the next 20 years. Some money is already trickling in. A $2,086,000 grant under the Model Cities program is expected shortly, and the city could receive about $23 million more if other major federal grants come through. Illinois' Governor Richard Ogilvie recently approved a $50,000 program for the study of a proposed new airport, whose construction could open up 2,500 new jobs. A big development company is interested in putting up 3,500 low-income housing units worth up to $80 million...
...Russians, who have grown increasingly impatient at the refusal of the Czechoslovak government to curb entirely its people's liberty, decided that the time had come to crack down. Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Semenov flew to Prague with orders to stamp out Czechoslovak defiance. A more ominous visitor was Marshal Andrei Grechko, the Soviet Defense Minister, whose presence in Prague underscored Soviet readiness to use force if necessary to keep Czechoslovakia in line. At a meeting in Prague's historic Hradčany Castle, the Soviet visitors demanded a pledge from the Czechoslovak government that there would...
...devoted his first year in office more to tossing problems to task forces for study than to providing any new directions for Canadian policies. None of Trudeau's task-force assignments have provoked livelier discussion at home, or greater misgivings abroad, than his question whether the time had come to bring home the troops...
...handle the logistical needs of the South Vietnamese army. Like the army, the air force is now being equipped and trained by the U.S. to operate eventually on its own. Toward that goal the V.N.A.F. has been given about 100 helicopters, with three times that many still to come. C-47 cargo planes are being supplemented by bigger C-119s. One fighter squadron is already flying supersonic F-5 jets...