Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Maddox, a 2,200-ton destroyer, left Yokosuka, Japan, July 23 on what seemed to be a routine mission to observe North Vietnamese naval activity in the Gulf of Tonkin. Stopping at Taiwan, she took aboard a "black box," about the size of a moving van, crammed with electronic gear, and about a dozen new men to tend its innards. What was it for? Defense Secretary Robert McNamara insisted at first that the equipment "consisted in essence" of normal radio receivers that gave the ship "added capacity" to detect indications of possible attack. In testimony released at week...
...tractors, Jantzen sportswear, Supp-hose) and manufacturers' royalties (Bobby Hull sticks, pucks, T shirts) will net him at least $50,000 this year, and he has just signed a several-year "six-figure" contract with a Canadian firm to produce a whole new line of Bobby Hull hockey gear...
...Their Eyes. "We will need a year to judge whether the scheme pays off," admits Duhamel. If he had any doubts, the 40 young employees (the oldest is 24) who packed their gear to return to Harnes last week had none at all. Some were already planning next winter's work and games. "I'd like to spend the whole winter skiing and working in this chalet," says 16-year-old Annabella Zozzolo. "All my buddies want to come to work for Duhamel's. I can understand why," said one of the group's four young...
...start a special school in civil disorders for ranking Guardsmen later this month at Fort Gordon, Ga. To further lessen the chance of Regular Army troops being needed to quell city riots, the Pen tagon has established a unique logistics system that will supply Guard units with specialized riot gear not normally issued through regular channels. Protective body armor, bullhorns, search lights and portable tear gas dispensers have been stockpiled at scattered secret depots throughout the nation. Enough radio sets to equip two infantry divisions have been pre-positioned on the East and West coasts to cut down delivery time...
...days last week, Bobby and a caravan of 36 cars crammed with out-of-state reporters, committee staffers and electronic gear burned up the dirt-topped back roads of eastern Kentucky's poverty-blighted Wolfe, Breathitt, Knott, Harlan and Letcher counties, halting in hidden hollows at weather-bleached wood and tar-paper shanties sagging with neglect. And in spavined one-horse communities named Neon, Grassy Creek, Mousie, Fisty, Jackhorn and Cody, ragged, slack-eyed men and women and listless children with bellies taut from hunger spoke of their need...