Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...task forces have effective control of all the earth's major bodies of water, with missiles below and nuclear bombers overhead. Aboard ships and strung across Pacific outposts are the ready Marines, many of them veterans of Korean fighting and of crisis moves in Quemoy and Lebanon. The crack Seventh Army, massed 150,000 strong in Europe, keeps a cool watch on Berlin and provides the shield for NATO; the Korea-trained 82nd Airborne Division is at Fort Bragg, N.C., ready for the next call...
...defense force is available, and so is Cambodia's army of 28,000, the tough Philippines' of 50,000, and Pakistan's soldiery numbering 160,000. Poised for take-off in Malaya are the 2,500 members of Britain's crack Commonwealth Brigade, composed of British, Australian and New Zealand units...
...just as well because the Yale meet will probably hinge on it. The team has been doing 3:20 consistently, and it is expected that for the Yale meet the time might drop five seconds. But the distance relay combination is even stronger. In fact, it might crack the American record in the four-mile on April 28 at the Penn Relays. The present mark is 16:52.3, but the team could in theory clip it by as much as five seconds...
Hiebeler carefully recruited three crack climbers for his party: a tough Bavarian carpenter named Anton Kinshofer, 27; a pink-cheeked Bavarian sawmill hand named Andreas Mannhardt, 22; and an Austrian named Walter Almberger, 28, who worked in an iron mine 1.600 ft. below the earth's surface. For quick energy, the methodical Hiebeler got an Austrian jam factory to devise a special marmalade packed with calories and vitamins. He designed boots armored with three layers of outer leather; he bought special plastic helmets and tough, extra-thin ropes. Keeping their plans a tight secret, the men practiced all winter...
...qualified paratroopers; unlike conventional paratroopers, they make all their training jumps by night. Their 38-week training course is a killing tenure of unrelieved work and pressure. After getting instruction in communications, medicine, weaponry and demolitions, they are formed into detachments of nine to twelve men and refined into crack team-operators capable of moving into action in any kind of territory. The morale of the Special Forces guerrillas is very high, and their re-enlistment rate is at an enviable...