Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Force 1st Lieut. James A. Cullen of Winchester, Mass., could hardly have been in a tighter spot. Hit by Viet Minh gunners during a bombing run over Quangkhe during last week's raids, Cullen bailed out of his F-100 Super Sabre into the Gulf of Tonkin-and practically into the midst of a flotilla of armed Communist junks and torpedo boats. Muzzles flashing, the Red vessels sped toward Cullen as he desperately sought cover behind his life raft. Said he: "I thought I was finished...
...case of just such an emergency, zeroed in on a radio homing beacon built into Cullen's life belt and sighted a brilliant orange marker dye that the downed pilot had released into the water. Defying 5-ft. waves, the Albatross set down without mishap in the choppy gulf, taxied up to Cullen, and was flying him back to South Viet Nam only 30 minutes after he hit the water...
...last week's renewed aerial action, a Huskie helicopter was whirring over the Gulf of Tonkin in search of Cul len when Vietnamese 1st Lieut. Nguyen Van Phu, who ditched his flaming Skyraider near the spot where the U.S. pilot went down, fired a smoke signal to attract its attention. The Hus kie, flying out of Danang, dropped to within 3 ft. of the pitching wave crests, plucked the wounded pilot out of the water and started back toward South Viet...
...devised. The prevailing northeasterly head winds often hit 40 knots or more. Complicating matters is the mast-snapping pampeiro, a westerly-land wind that frequently howls off the pampas at even greater force-only to die in a sudden, glassy calm. The Brazilian Curfent-the backwash of the Gulf Stream-is supposed to flow southward at two or three knots. But it weaves like a snake and sometimes dies like the wind...
...Corporation put it bluntly, "We won't consider expanding in Mississippi until the state and its people join the Union again." Dollars spent on new plants in Mississippi fell by 28 per cent last year, and tourism has declined drastically, a major blow to the resort areas of the Gulf Coast...