Word: geared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pilots speculated that the F-l 11, which sweeps in at treetop level on bombing runs, may have run into a hill or mountain. Not surprisingly, the Air Force slapped on a tight security blackout. Since the plane is crammed with the very latest navigational and other electronic gear, the U.S. did not want to let the enemy know whether it fell over the North or in Communist-held portions of Laos. The Pentagon confirmed that the second F-l 11 crashed in Thailand after what the Air Force described as "an in-flight" emergency; both of its crew members...
...Polytechnical Institute, some 5,000 students sacked out in the hallways, playing cards, listening to Chopin tapes and tuning in Western news broadcasts, including reports on Czechoslovakia, where just the sort of liberalization they are demanding is unfolding. At week's end the students picked up their gear and returned to their homes, but classes were still canceled...
...stuck pretty much to movie equipment, provided Hollywood with its first reliable projectors and cameras, could fairly boast that they "took the flickers out of the flicks." Chuck Percy sought new fields, led Bell & Howell deep into such areas as microfilm and mailing systems, business machines and bindery gear...
...direct air support to the Royal Lao in their firefights with the North Vietnamese army. U.S. trained Thais sometimes fly Lao planes and man Lao artillery in order to bolster the anti-Communist defenses, dressing in Lao uniforms. Air America and Continental Air Services planes ferry ammunition, boots, radio gear and food to the Lao forces, as do unmarked helicopters piloted by Americans. Air America planes are dropping $3,500,000 worth of food a year to some 125,000 refugees at 86 remote sites-refugees who might otherwise have to turn to the Communists for survival. Among them...
Another difficulty is that TV's technological problems are only half-mastered. In addition to their standard infantry pack, TV correspondents must keep pace with the troops while toting a tape recorder; their sound men lug some 20 lbs. of amplifiers and other recording gear; the photographers are draped with more than 40 lbs. of camera, batteries and film. Worse still, to synchronize film with the correspondent's commentary, the three have to be linked by a cable less than 10 ft. long, end to end, which makes them about the fattest target in any outfit...