Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North Vietnamese is the thickest in the history of aerial warfare-it accounted for the loss of 14 U.S. planes last week-U.S. pilots for most of the war were little bothered by the North's MIG air force. The MIGs frequently did not come off the ground to meet U.S. pilots or, when they did, tried merely to force U.S. planes to jettison their bombs and defend themselves. Last August, the U.S. air commander in Viet Nam, Lieut. General William ("Spike") Momyer, told a Senate subcommittee: "We have driven the MIGs...
...North has also been using ground radar in a more sophisticated fashion to track incoming bombers and has enabled its pilots to exploit an American blind spot. Knowing that U.S. pilots have to locate their targets-and must take pains to avoid restricted areas-the MIGs have been climbing above the clouds and out of sight to await the attackers. Then they swoop down like hawks, rip through a U.S. squadron with guns ablaze and vanish into the blue. With such tactics, the MIGs have lately shot down almost as many planes as they have lost-though the U.S. still...
Altogether, the U.S. put 16 MIGs out of action last week, bringing Hanoi's total losses on the ground and in the air to at least 120 aircraft. This might be expected to sap the resistance of the North's air force, which normally has no more than 110 planes at once, but for the fact that the Russians regularly provide replacements. Packed in crates, MIGs from the Soviet Union roll by railroad across China. The North's biggest problem is thus not getting new planes to replace losses but training enough pilots to fly them...
...nude males. On the other side of the ledger, the court refused to review the conviction of a sculptor in Miami who had been fined $100 for displaying in his backyard six large statues of couples engaged in various normal and aberrant sex acts. The court broke no new ground, but neither did it give the lie to the often-repeated prediction that it will eventually allow virtually any publication or motion picture, so long as it is not sold to children, sold in a pandering manner, or sold in such a way that it intrudes upon the individual...
...leading freshman halfback last fall, he scored six touchdowns with the Yardlings, three on interceptions and three on the ground...