Word: gearing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...laughs that just aren't there. Maria Perschy, a German import who resembles Romy Schneider, plays Paula's roommate, which gives her a chance to carry messages back and forth and practice her English. The movie's chief support lies in a wagonload of outdoor gear supposedly borrowed from Abercrombie & Fitch. Of note to sportsmen is a pair of inflatable waders-step into a drop-off and the pants fill with air, quickly ballooning so big that they flip the occupant over in the water, head down. If a man can't get hold...
...surface. Wernher von Braun, head of the Marshall Space Flight Center, thinks that the first lunar-landing vehicle can make its touch down cautiously, its rocket engine slowing it almost to a halt while the crew men select a good place to land. If they see their landing gear disappearing into impalpable dust, they can rise, move sideways and try another landing somewhere else...
Through the moonlit streets of Saigon at 1 a.m. Thursday, armored cars, a dozen M24 light tanks, and truckloads of troops in battle gear moved cautiously into position. Paratroopers and marines quietly surrounded the houses occupied by South Viet Nam's Chief of State, General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, and four other top members of his ruling junta. With no opposition from the police guards on duty at each house, squads of soldiers efficiently swooped on the sleeping generals, knocked politely on their doors, and swiftly carried them off without firing a shot in anger...
...Gutwirth rented a sound-level meter and measured the lionlike snores of Mr. Sheir as they came through the wall. A newspaper reporter who auditioned the Sheir snore, live, felt that all this electronic gear was unnecessary because "even to the naked ear [it] sounded like a circular saw going through a pine knot...
...continent, the 50 independent projects they are working on (total budget: $27 million) may ultimately prove a more fruitful investment than far costlier space research. Staging area for U.S. forces in Antarctica is Christchurch, N.Z. There, ten times weekly during summer months, Navy transports with special ski-type landing gear take off for the seven-hour flight to McMurdo...