Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ducks as Thunderchiefs can get. The MIGs made a fast firing pass, then swooshed off to the north and escaped in the mist. One Thunderchief took 20-mm. cannon hits in its hydraulic system, the other in its engine. Both limped some 20 miles until they got over the Gulf of Tonkin, where the pilots bailed out. Major Frank E. Bennett drowned, and, after a 48-hour search, Captain James A. Magnusson was listed as missing...
...people; there were fist fights in Cairo as devout Moslems elbowed their way into queues to get the necessary documentation. In Jordan, airline space to Jeddah was at such a premium that one group of rich pilgrims flew to London, caught a BOAC flight to Dhahran near the Persian Gulf, then chartered a bus to cross 780 miles of desert...
...already looking beyond creation of the Milwaukee & North Western. He is fighting the Union Pacific for control of the Rock Island, is awaiting ICC approval of his recent acquisition of the Chicago Great Western. His goal: a 30,000-mile railroad that would stretch from Lake Superior to the Gulf of Mexico and from Chicago to the Pacific Ocean. Such a road would be second in mileage only to the Soviet Union's state-owned, 79,000-mile system...
...TIME'S cover picture of Jeanne Moreau [March 5] exemplifies the gulf between some art and people. My wife and I are qualified to judge a portrait by 40-odd years of sympathetic observance of the Western world, and to us the haunted ghost on the cover bears no relation to the womanly artist glimpsed in the photos and the warm person who certainly comes through in the text. Knowledgeable as some of your readers may be in the language of modern art, they are simply too few to justify TIME'S addressing them...
Buzzing with Rumors.With 27,500 Americans already in Viet Nam-a 50% increase since the Tonkin Gulf crisis of August, the U.S. may well expand that force still further. After Army Chief of Staff General Harold K. Johnson wound up an eight-day tour of Viet Nam, Saigon began buzzing with rumors that a beefed-up U.S. Army division of nearly 20,000 men might be sent over to guard key bases. The fact that 6,000 marines were moved out of Hawaii last week to replace the 3,500 who landed in Viet Nam might indicate further leatherneck reinforcements...