Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...withheld to protect other prisoners who might have helped him-escaped from a Laos-based prison camp. He spent 23 days hiding in mountain wilderness, finally was rescued by a "Jolly Green Giant" helicopter after U.S. flyers spotted an S.O.S. he had made with white rags spread on the ground. The other, Robert ("Rick") Adams, 25, is the only airman who has twice been shot down over North Viet Nam and twice been rescued...
...Ground fire tore into his Crusader outside Haiphong, setting it aflame and pushing the plane into an all but ungovernable wobble. Unable to reach the sea, Adams cajoled the faltering craft toward a desolate-looking mountain area, away from the densely populated Hanoi-Haiphong complex. Half a mile from a looming mountain peak, at an altitude of 200 ft., he radioed: "Sorry about that. See you in a year"-then he pulled his cockpit ejection loops seconds before the plane piled into the peak...
...make the Arctic warmer. Several countries have suggested melting part of the icecap by coating it with heat-absorbing carbon. U.S. scientists are considering the possibility of generating dust clouds in space to form sunshades, or creating broad bands of ice-crystal cirrus clouds that would allow the ground beneath to cool...
Since Vermont statutes do not cover such situations, the probate court merely invoked the old common-law rule that a slayer shall not profit from his crime. Charlotte stubbornly appealed to the Vermont Supreme Court on the ground, among others, that the rule applied only to heirs convicted of murder-not manslaughter...
...football. He sounded pretty revolutionary too. "I want," said James Nathaniel Brown, 30, "to have a hand in the struggle that is going on in our country." Thus Jim Brown (TIME cover, Nov. 26), fullback of the National Football League's Cleveland Browns and the biggest ground gainer (12,312 yds. over nine seasons) in the history of pro football, announced his retirement from the sport that made him famous...