Word: feats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feed our troops. We are supplying 9.2 pounds per man per day of PX supplies. How could you talk of a shipping shortage under those conditions?" The Defense Secretary also pointed out that the U.S. had moved 100,000 men 10,000 miles in less than four months-a feat unprecedented in military logistics. There are now 325,000 combat-ready U.S. troops in Southeast Asia, 245,000 of them already committed to the war in Viet Nam, with more than 50,000 others aboard battle vessels offshore. "In history," said McNamara, "never has any other nation-and never...
...minute mile, a 17-foot pole vault, or a pitcher's perfect game. Last Saturday at Princeton, he became one of perhaps two dozen men in the world to clear the fabled height. The jump was one of the most prestigious athletic accomplishments in Ivy League history and amazing feat by any standard...
...South Vietnamese leader since Ngo Dinh Diem, whose downfall the ascetic bonze triggered in 1963. Since then he has added the scalps of three more governments. Last week he scored another triumph, this time over the Directory of generals headed by Premier Nguyen Cao Ky. It was no small feat, since the generals comprise the combined armed might of South Viet Nam, but Tri Quang is armed with his own powerful weapons: an unerring instinct for politics, a perfect sense of timing and a control over his followers that borders on the charismatic...
...first word about the latest Russian space feat came, as usual, not from a Moscow spokesman but from a greying British scientist. Astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell, 52, who used the University of Manchester's 250-ft. radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, England, to track the Soviet spaceship Luna 10 on its successful moon mission, jumped at the chance of providing a maneuver-by-maneuver account that enabled the free world to learn of the first lunar or bit before most Russians...
Death Revealed. Trigger, 33, Roy Rogers' original palomino stallion, whose 65 hard-learned tricks won him star billing in 86 movies, a feat unmatched by his successor, Trigger Jr., 28, who does 45 stunts, but never went beyond rodeo appearances and television shows; of old age; last July; at Hidden Valley, Calif. Rogers says he withheld the announcement because he could not bear to break the news to the horse's devoted fans, who still write to "Trigger, U.S.A." "I just couldn't see covering him up," says Roy, and so Trigger has been stuffed, to stand...