Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stroke the Pentagon ordered the closing, consolidation or cutting back of yet another 149 bases,* and disclosed a "realignment" of strategic forces that will scrap about two-thirds of the present big bomber fleet by 1971. All of the 80 supersonic B58 Hustlers will go. Some 350 older-model B-52 Stratofortresses will also be phased out, leaving the Strategic Air Command with only 255 of its lumbering eight-engined giants. By then, the U.S. arsenal of land-and sea-based long-range nuclear missiles will have grown from...
...tireless, didactic liberal of the ban-the-bomb breed, Cameron worked on Fleet Street papers before he broke loose on his own. He prides himself on getting into areas forbidden to other newsmen, and he wangled permission to visit North Viet Nam for a month this fall. His report is a rare eyewitness account by a Western journalist, but it leaves little doubt of Cameron's own emotional commitment: he firmly believes the U.S. has no business whatsoever in Viet...
...firms on the Continent, and of European concerns as well, by providing rapid, door-to-door service within Europe and between the U.S. and Europe. To accomplish the latter, it has negotiated transatlantic cargo tie-ups with Seaboard World Airlines, Inc., Pan Am and McLean Industries, which operates a fleet of huge, specially designed piggyback freighters. DC began talking with dozens of potential American clients even before the West Friesland deal went through, got some swift results. "The European Du Pont operation had recently canceled its contract with West Friesland," says DC's London-born president, Leslie G. Taylor...
Running Around. "I think we are better in business than men," says Supapan Mejudhon, 21, who helps her mother run a flourishing 49-boat ferry fleet on the bustling Chao Phraya River. "They like to sit at a desk and do routine jobs, while we like to run around." Mrs. Bessie Punyanitya Samargachan, 37, has expanded her Boon Vanit Travel Agency from a tiny concern with one part-time guide into one of Thailand's biggest agencies, with 80 employees and a fleet of 20 buses and cars. Perhaps the most eminent Thai businesswoman of all is Mrs. Lursakdi...
...determined to have a peerage. When he discovered that Canadians are not eligible for that honor, he became a British citizen and kept badgering everyone he knew in British politics, including Prime Minister Macmillan. Finally, last year he got his peerage and decided to call himself Lord Thomson of Fleet. Why had he gone to all the trouble? "It was the best way to prove to Canadians that I'm a success...