Word: humps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the Hump. The newest car in 1961 will be Pontiac's four-cylinder compact, the Tempest. The first four-cylinder engine in a G.M. car in 30 years, the new water-cooled engine will generate 130 h.p. It will be mounted at a 45° angle to provide the Tempest with a low hood line. The Tempest will be similar to the Corvair in styling, but will be five to ten inches longer. The Tempest will also feature a trans-axle, a driveshaft system that has the engine up front but the transmission and differential in the rear...
...much to start with. Mauritania is a land of sand twice the size of France sprawled across the lower Sahara on Africa's Atlantic hump. Its 620,000 people are divided between nomadic Moslem herdsmen in the north and farming Negroes in the south. Both Morocco and the Mali Federation have loudly claimed all or parts of it. But Mauritania has one major asset: a jagged black mountain, 1,500 ft. high and 20 miles long, containing iron deposits estimated at 150 million tons. With the World Bank loan, a mining company called MIFERMA, controlled...
Civil Sniping. No one is more acutely aware of MATS' problems than MATS' boss, Lieut. General William H. Tunner, 53, who commanded the historic airlifts over the Hump in World War II and to Berlin and Korea. Most of Tunner's 483 planes are obsolescent relics of the propeller age. The bulk of them-291 cargo-carrying C124 Globemasters and 163 troop-lifting C-118s and C121 Super Constellations-are seven to twelve years old, are so short-ranged that they rely on vulnerable island refueling stops on long hops. If Wake Island, Kwajalein and Eniwetok were...