Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over $30 million worth of tanks, Jeeps, armored personnel carriers, and artillery, enough to support a U.S. brigade. The Royal Thai Air Force is soon to receive 18 Northrop-built F-5 jet fighters, while the tough Thai infantry's Garand rifles will soon be replaced with light, fast-firing Armalites, which are much better suited to the miasmic conditions of jungle warfare. Radar and reconnaissance planes will add long-range vision to the 14,000-man Thai Navy, and swift patrol boats will give the 1,500 miles of meandering coastline additional security...
...were willing to settle for a neutral title like State of Yemen. The Republicans insisted on having the word republic or republican in the title. In fact, about the only thing the two sides can agree on is to suspend the conference until after the month-long Islamic holy fast of Ramadan, which begins next week. Nothing doing, said both Feisal and Nasser from afar. The conferees were told to stay in session until an agreement is reached. Yemenis being Yemenis, that may be until Haradh (average daily temperature: 98°-plus) freezes over...
Trouble was, the excitement had about run out. When Hoare was hired by Premier Moise Tshombe 1½ years ago, Communist-backed rebel Simbas controlled almost half the Congo, including the major centers of Stanleyville and Albertville. Hoare hit them so fast and so hard that he often was able to take towns by simply telephoning ahead and saying that he was coming in. His Fifth Commando helped to rescue nearly 1,800 European hostages, smashed the Simbas' resistance, and ended the threat of a Communist victory...
...Fast Flicker. Backed by the FAA, Dr. Hauty and Dr. Thomas Adams began with four volunteers, all male FAA employees aged 30 to 55, all scientists. For a week they tested the subjects in Oklahoma City to determine base lines for pulse, blood pressure, breathing rate, urinalysis, flicker-fusion time (how fast a light can flicker before it appears to merge into a steady beam), perspiration from the palms (an index of emotional tension), and rectal temperature every two hours round the clock...
...machine gun, glued real pencils to Gorky's desk, painted over still photographs of the revolution, added real plumbing ("It looks like a mysterious Rube Goldberg whisky still," he quips) to the section on Soviet industrialization. The final result: a collection of evocative images that collide like the fast-cutting montage of film...