Word: geared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rigid & Regular. When their six-jet modified bomber lifted clear of the airbase at Brize Norton, England last July, Olmstead and McKone and their four crewmates were beginning a mission that was vital to U.S. security. Their bomb bays were crammed not with high explosives but with delicate electronic gear designed to measure the strengths and weaknesses of Soviet radar defenses. Theirs was a flight far different from that of Francis Powers. Theirs was a "ferret mission" of a sort that has been carried out for years by U.S. ships and planes patrolling the long coastline of the Russian heartland...
...place-and-show girl with any kind of luck and, even without it, still pleasant to watch. In a "small revue" that could scarcely be smaller-besides Carol, just Jules Munshin and a singing French foursome-versatile Actress Channing performs in three out of every four numbers, often shifting gear right on stage behind a screen. She is very much a show girl in how hard she works, very much more than one in how neatly she gets her hoofs, or her lungs, or above all her teeth, into a great many aspects of show business. Few mimics, moreover...
...Signed a deal with Indonesia's Army Chief Abdul Haris Nasution, to supply $300 million worth of Soviet military gear for Indonesia's armed forces...
...hoarding is widespread (1,000-lira notes have virtually disappeared from circulation). Businessmen complain that government officials are so afraid of being charged with dispensing favors that they are reluctant to sign the simplest document involving money. The trials of Menderes & Co. are still going on in low gear at Yassiada island, but because of mismanagement and the flimsiness of much of the evidence, have largely lost impact with the Turkish public. In fact, the chief effect has been to win the defendants a certain amount of sympathy even among the revolution's early supporters...
...commanders got around the language barrier by carrying out maneuvers via the International General Signal Book. As the Odax pulled every trick in the submariner's book, the South Americans learned the newest ship-maneuvering techniques, how to handle the most modern MAD (Magnetic Anomaly Detector) and sonar gear to track, corner and kill the sub. Sonar operators even learned how to tell the type of sub by the quality of its "ping...