Word: floating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French withdrawal, he transferred to the Royal Laotian Army as a paratroop lieutenant only to taste more of it. Kong Le's was a battalion of troubleshooters. Whenever the Pathet Lao got particularly obnoxious, he and his men were sent out from Vientiane over jungle villages to float down silently and kill. Often they dropped without supplies, fought their way back on a bullet a day, gratifying their taste for toads and bamboo shoots along the route. Kong Le perfected an instinct for infantry leadership. He made the right moves, and U.S. military men credited him with a fine...
GENERAL MOTORS. G.M. takes the long-range view: fantastic models of future machines fell, slice and eat trees, and extrude four-lane highways; cities spring from the bush; hotels float underwater; moon hostels house whoever gets there. FORD. Instead of a Ford in your future, you can put one in your past-on the Magic Skyway, a superb bit of showmanship. In a Ford, you will scoot around Disney dinosaurs, watch a two-story Tyrannosaurus rex getting the best of a tough old Stegosaurus, and pop in on a happy household of hairy Homo sapiens...
...relic was placed on the lead float of a mile-long procession, which began a parade through the city while flocks of pigeons and sparrows were released from cages.* Also swirling overhead: thousands of round paper disks representing Buddha's "wheel of life," air-dropped by chartered Cessna. Lining the parade route, sustaining themselves on peanuts, soda pop and peppered fish sticks, were 250,000 spectators. As the Buddhists celebrated the 2,508th year of Buddha's birth and the first anniversary of their successful campaign against President Ngo Dinh Diem, they plainly showed themselves a growing force...
...good way to start is to float over the grounds in a Swiss cable car. At 115 ft., the ride goes high enough to offer a sweep of the jumble below, but still low enough to make the rider feel the clash of the architecture and the overall dynamic of the vast bazaar. If his timing is lucky, he can almost feel the heat as tawny Samoan youths prance beneath on mats of fire, and only moments later he may be staring down into the whites of the eyes of a dozen Zulus. He flies from Denmark to Switzerland...
...pilots of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are learning how to land the big jets closer to town. At Wallops Island, Va., they bring their Boeing 707 slanting out of the sky at a limping 100 m.p.h.-50 m.p.h. slower than a standard jetliner. They float over the end of the runway and touch down at only 90 m.p.h.-as slow as an old-fashioned propeller-driven...