Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old Kasler had completed his primary assignment of bombing a cluster of warehouses, and could have returned to his base in Thailand. As usual, however, his flight began prowling the countryside for "targets of opportunity." Spotting several trucks, the jets hit them and were looking for more when ground fire caught Kasler's wingman, and he ejected. Kasler circled the area to protect him until rescue helicopters could get in. When Kasler's fuel gauge hit "bingo" (minimum remaining to get home), instead of leaving the protective watch to others, he elected to refuel from an orbiting...
Suddenly, ground fire thudded into Kasler's Thunderchief, crippling it. He bailed out, his parachute deployed, and he floated down near a village. Only a brief message came from his beeper radio: "My God, my leg is broken." Despite a major search by nearly 50 aircraft for eight hours, Kasler was not seen again; and Hanoi later gleefully announced that he had been captured...
...believed. Rumbling and banging down the street came a wave of empty kerosene drums propelled by perfectly straight-faced adults; a horde of children were bouncing large weather balloons on their heads. In the midst of the turmoil were two homemade Hovercraft, a foot above the ground, one ridden by a curvaceous brunette billed as "Liquid Hips," the other by a menacing figure in black plastic and World War I aviator's helmet known as "The Neutron...
...urged key reforms in the FBI reports, which he himself helps prepare. Auto thefts, he says, should be divided between cars actually stolen for resale by seasoned pros and those merely "borrowed" and then abandoned by joyriding youths. Not impressed, the FBI has rejected Lejins' idea on the ground that it might encourage joyriding. Lejins also questions the FBI's most dramatic statistic-that U.S. crime is "rising six times faster than the population." In fact, most crimes have always been committed by persons aged 18 to 24; the 1945 "war baby" boom has increased that age group...
Next to George. Getting Billy under ground has been difficult from the ending. It was first hoped that he could be laid to rest amid the $1,000,000 worth of garden sculptures that he presented last year to Israel's Hebrew University. That idea fell through when the Israeli government decided that a museum was no place for the remains of a donor. Next, Billy's sisters, Fiftyish Polly Rose Gottlieb, and Sixtyish Miriam Stern, scouted Westchester Hills Cemetery in Ardsley, N.Y. After driving out with Executor Arthur Cantor, a Broad way pressagent and producer (The Tenth...