Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demanded. Given China's heavy pressure on North Viet Nam not to make any overt agreement with the U.S., it seemed doubtful that such assurances would be forthcoming. Hanoi might also have reasoned that the closer the U.S. election drew, the more willing Johnson would be to give ground. On the other hand, the North Vietnamese might prefer to deal with L.B.J. -a known, if occasionally inscrutable, quantity-than with a new President who might take six months or so to get things moving...
...Meredith rifled a touchdown pass to Bob Hayes; after that, he engineered a field goal for a 10-7 lead. Then it happened. Early in the third quarter, the Packers' Willie Davis crashed through the Cowboy line, grabbed Meredith's face mask and wrenched him to the ground, breaking his nose. The infraction cost Green Bay a 15-yd. penalty. It cost Dallas the ball game. Obviously in pain, Meredith was only fitfully effective, seemed to have trouble finding his receivers, was twice intercepted. Meanwhile, Green Bay Quarterback Bart Starr completed ten of eleven passes, three of them...
...causes go far beyond the experience of a particularly rough flight. "It has always been a multiple thing," he says. For a few, the fear may result from a death in the family resulting from an air crash. For others, the airplane may represent separation-from both the ground and loved ones. Deep feelings of guilt often play a role. "A man who feels guilty toward his wife," says Alston, "expects a catastrophe, such as a crash, as punishment...
...other pilots of Saigon-based Continental Air Services, but the business itself is most unusual. CAS, a subsidiary of the U.S.'s Continental Air Lines, operates in Viet Nam, Laos and Thailand, and has become the prime commercial charter carrier in an area where ground travel is usually difficult and often impossible. In Viet Nam, which is home for half of its 50-plane fleet, CAS links dozens of airstrips from the DMZ to the Mekong Delta. Each month it carries 20,000 passengers and some 1,300,000 lbs. of cargo. Its customers, mainly U.S. contractors in Viet...
...military aviators, more than earn their average tax-free pay of $2,000 a month. Often their "airstrips" are barely that-for example, at Nui Sap the strip is a 60-ft.-wide dike top that stretches for 960 ft. between two paddyfields. There are V.C. potshotters on the ground, swarms of U.S. fighters, transports, helicopters and spotter planes in the air. "Our major hazard," complains Chief Pilot Ed Dearborn, "is overcrowded airways, not the enemy." So far, the CAS has lost only one plane, a small Beechcraft that crashed while landing in the prop wash of a big transport...