Word: cracks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dedicated Men. Yet for all its charming ways, the 159th Fighter Group is considered by the Pentagon to be a crack Air National Guard outfit. The group can put eight of its 16 F-102 jet interceptors into the air within 20 minutes, can come to full operational strength (pilots, maintenance men, armorers) in less than an hour. The hard core of the 800-man group is 175 fulltime employees who are classified as "civilian personnel.'' With little real responsibility, many of the remaining 625 might be bored with the Guard-were it not for the annual training...
This unfortunate ignorant person took to a panty girdle journal to berate the Harvard crack pots, the gentlemen and the scholars. I hope you will follow the medieval example of my day when I was Managing Editor of the CRIMSON and send all the candidates out to confiscate this journal and cremate all copies available in the Punch Bowl and put the fire out with good beer...
...generals took over in South Korea last week, proclaiming their desire to wipe out corruption, inefficiency and Communism. The U.S., which had trained the crack Korean army and hand-picked its leaders, was surprised by the coup and bewildered in its response...
Efficient Aid. Sarit has cut the price of rice, bus fares and school fees, while boosting exports to $400 million and spurring a healthy 5% annual growth in the national production. U.S. aid, $300 million of it military and $241 million economic, has built a crack 100,000-man army, four main highways, 500 bridges and countless other projects, such as the $14 million power plant that Lyndon Johnson inaugurated last week. Sarit's Cabinet, mostly civilian, is probably the most efficient that the country ever had. Last year Sarit allocated as much money for education as for defense...
...blare of bugles and the whine of bagpipes cut through the chilly Washington night as crack armed forces drill teams wheeled and countermarched on the floodlit White House lawn. From a bal cony watched President John F. Kennedy, and at his side was a welcome guest: Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba, 57, the father of his young country and a staunch friend of the West...