Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Enterprise has accounted for 20% more attack sorties than her conventional sisters, and at an operating cost only 3% higher. Thanks to the recent development of a fuel core that can perform for 13 years, the nuclear carriers of the future will be even more tactically revolutionary than their conventional counterparts. The most significant tribute to the concept of an atomic-powered surface fleet came this year when Defense Secretary Robert McNamara reversed his longtime opposition to additional nuclear carriers, requested another in his 1966-67 budget and announced that he planned to ask for two more later...
...Nhut airbase three miles north of Saigon, which serves both commercial and military traffic and is the world's busiest airport (1,512 landings and takeoffs a day). Firing with deadly accuracy, they lobbed 200 shells into the base in 20 minutes, ignited a 420,000-gallon fuel tank, smashed the enlisted men's transient billets, and destroyed four parked aircraft and damaged 29. The Viet Cong escaped without a scratch, leaving seven Americans and a Vietnamese dead, 182 wounded...
...them it was a big year for surfing." Those who do know don't mind. "We just don't have the feeling about this Nazi thing that our parents do," explains Los Angeles Teen-Ager Rick Higgins. In fact, what parental disapproval there is seems only to fuel the fad. Admits Palmdale's Paul O'Hara, 15: "It really upsets your parents. That's why everyone buys them...
Actually, Congress has kept a lot busier than it ever expected to be when it reconvened in January. After the tide of dramatic legislation so ardently enacted in 1965, there seemed little left to do but pass routine bills to fuel the new multitude of Great Society programs. But then the President's State of the Union message launched a whole new raft of legislative proposals. These, together with Congress' penchant for much-bally-hooed hearings such as its Viet Nam and auto safety inquiries, have kept the Hill ahum. One recent day the House alone held...
...microcapsules containing primer. When the rivet is forced into place, the capsules break, allowing the primer to flow over both the rivet and the adjoining metal to protect them from corrosion. Manufacturers are testing encapsulated flavors and fragrances in food mixes to increase their shelf life, and nuclear-reactor fuel is being encapsulated to increase its efficiency...