Word: fleeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arsenal free of charge to the South Vietnamese, including 1,200 aircraft from U-17 trainers to F-5 jet fighters, enough to give the South Vietnamese the world's seventh largest air force by 1974 or 1975. The Vietnamese navy already has received nearly all of a fleet of 1,600 boats and ships; the ground forces are getting-among other things-640,000 M-16 rifles, 20,000 machine guns, 34,000 grenade launchers, 870 howitzers, 10,000 81-mm. mortars, 220 M41 tanks, 1,000 armored personnel carriers, 44,000 trucks and 40,000 radios...
...been increasing suggestions that, at age 76, Hoover should resign. He has been criticized for making the FBI too much a lengthened shadow of his own philosophy. Though the critics aim chiefly at Hoover, the FBI's image suffers as well. It was discovered that Hoover keeps a fleet of armored limousines around the country that outnumbers the presidential limousines. Documents stolen by radical activists from the Media, Pa., FBI office outlined the agency's use of undercover informers; one memorandum encouraged local agents to exacerbate "the paranoia endemic in [New Left] circles that there...
...position in the oil-rich Middle East. They have signed a treaty with West Germany that, in effect, recognizes East Europe's Soviet-drawn borders and tacitly pays homage to Soviet hegemony in the eastern half of the Continent. Soviet military power has increased so dramatically that the Soviet fleet now rivals, and in some areas has practically neutralized, the U.S. Navy. The huge Soviet ICBM buildup has enabled the Russians to reach approximate parity with the U.S. and thus negotiate as equals in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, which last week began the fourth round in Vienna...
...firm and became entranced with flying. By the time he was 23, he was vice president in charge of a new leasing operation established by the finance company, which was owned by his father-in-law, Chicago Jeweler Burton Greenfield. The leasing business climbed steadily until it operated a fleet of 60 light planes out of its headquarters in Northbrook, Ill. Still, the young boss was dissatisfied. Aiming to make the company into a Hertz of the skies, Johnson set out three years ago to establish the first chain of franchised rent-a-plane stations across the country...
...Louis and Columbus. From each franchise operator, the company gets a $10,000 fee and a 5% annual royalty on gross revenues. Lease-A-Plane supplies the aircraft, but each local operator must put up $50,000 to $75,000 within a year to buy an equity on a fleet of about eight Cessnas, Pipers and Beeches...