Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the Middies' coxswain got his rudder back in gear, the yellow and blue shirts took off after the Crimson clan, and by the 1200-meter mark Navy was only a deck down...
Correspondents and cameramen in the Continental Palace Hotel swarmed down the stairs, through the lobby and out across Lam Son Square in single file, a ragtag army lugging typewriters, shoulder bags, TV cameras and sound gear. Our designated assembly point was down near the Saigon River four blocks away. Armed policemen in the square eyed us menacingly. There was no question: this formation clearly signaled the final departure of Americans from the Indochina...
...Viet Nam's 6th century naval hero, Trang Hung Dao. A landing zone had been prepared atop the building. But the South Vietnamese navy had placed 50-cal. machine guns on top of the building next door, posing a threat to the departing Americans. Picking up our gear, we trooped on to another assembly point...
Rumbling along in low gear, the buses began a circuitous tour of Saigon. Were they searching out more Americans? We didn't know. "Graham Martin sightseeing excursions," cracked one correspondent. Every few blocks the buses stopped, perhaps unsure if the road ahead was clear. An ARVN soldier rushed up to our bus and banged against the door. "Take me out!" he yelled. The Marine guard on our bus slapped him hard across the back. "Goddam, we took out 25,000 Vietnamese...
What looked like a blimp in the Macy's parade turned out to be Britain's Prince Charles in an inflatable diving suit. Charles, on leave from his duties with the Royal Navy, came to the far north of Canada, donned insulated swim gear and spent 30 minutes under the ice in Resolute Bay with Joseph Maclnnis, a Canadian expert on Arctic undersea life. Charles' eleven-day trip to Canada included dinner with Prime Minister Pierre and Margaret Trudeau in Ottawa, a dogsled ride at Frobisher, and a tour of Eskimo villages, where he ate raw seal...