Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seem to get your feet off the ground...
Bare Skeletons. In the continental U.S., the Army last week had 800,000 ground troops, the Marines 180,000. Only about 125,000 of the total are combat ready and capable of being deployed within or without the country on short notices for crisis duty. Key units include two brigades (8,500 men) of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division (which helped quell the Detroit riots last summer) stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C., and three outfits committed to NATO exigencies: the 1st and 2nd Armored Divisions (14,500 men each) at Fort Hood, Texas, and the 5th Mechanized Infantry...
...Europe, two (50,000 men) in troubled South Korea. Alaska (10,000) and Panama (5,000) are the only other sizable Army commitments; the Marines also maintain an amphibious brigade of 3,000 men in Okinawa that in effect provides reserves for Viet Nam. On that bloody ground, the Army currently has 333,000 men, the Marines 83,000. Clearly, any further thinning of force strengths across the world would leave the U.S. open to possible Communist flanking thrusts-which helps to explain Lyndon Johnson's dilemma...
...racing cars. The few details that have leaked out seem to indicate that the U.S.A.C.'s aim was bad; reduced engine power or no, Granatelli's turbines are still likely to be the fastest racers on the track. The new cars are chiselnosed, so low to the ground that the only part of the body higher than the tires is the exhaust funnel located be hind the driver's head. And one source close to Granatelli says that this year's models will make last year's STP Special -which qualified...
...life of the 12th journalist to die in Viet Nam: Photographer Bob Ellison, 23, whose work has appeared in many U.S. publications, including TIME'S cover on the Negro G.I. Ellison was listed as one of the 49 men aboard a C-123 transport shot down by ground fire as it circled for a landing...