Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ground, an honor guard of 1,000 Army, Navy, Marine, Air Force and Coast Guard men had been assembled; one Marine company had been flown down from Danang for the visit in jungle fatigues and camouflaged steel helmets. Forty U.S. flags fluttered along with unit flags for such fighting outfits as the 1st Air Cav, the 1st Marine and the 101st Airborne Brigade...
...zebra, kudu, oryx and hartebeest, swishing away flies with their tails. Suddenly, from the middle of a patch of thorn trees, flashed the white flick of an egret, constant companion of the African elephant. It was what the pilot had been looking for. He radioed the position to the ground, and within minutes a helicopter arrived. Two white hunters climbed out and disappeared into the tangle of thorn trees. There was a burst of high-powered rifle shots, a flutter of startled egrets. The hunters reappeared. Behind them lay a family of ten elephants, from a yearling calf...
...faster than passenger travel and promising to pass it as a source of income by 1975. Whether the airlines will have enough terminal facilities for all that business is another matter. Travelers already grumble at ticketing and baggage delays, and tomorrow's jumbo jets will require vast new ground installations that municipal airport authorities seem slow to start planning. In another use of aircraft, vertical, short-takeoff-and-landing craft and a new breed of jet helicopters (which have become highly developed in the Viet Nam war) may well provide a swift new intercity bus service, flying from fields...
...Biblique are proud that their own Bible de Jérusalem has been used and praised by Protestants and Jews, feel that scriptural study is the key to ecumenical progress. "By studying the Bible together," says Father Pierre Benoit, the director of the school, "we can immediately establish common ground. If we can establish an understanding in the field of Biblical studies, then perhaps we can achieve a similar understanding in theology...
...quasi-stellar objects (TIME cover, March 11). Its biologists and chemists, including James Bonner and Linus Pauling, have advanced knowledge of the basic chemistry of human life. Physicist Richard Feynman is helping to unify the theories of gravitational and electrodynamic fields, and his colleague, Murray Gell-Mann, broke new ground in subatomic theory by correctly predicting the existence of new particles. Seismologist Charles F. Richter's scale for measuring earth tremors is an international standard...