Word: icing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some of the aviators were accustomed to a different form of combat. "Man, that's rough flying," said Navy Lieut. Commander Dan Mayers, 32, whose helicopter wing returned recently from Viet Nam. "It's not quite what we're used to." Battling wing ice and frozen gas lines instead of flak, pilots flew more than 1,000 mercy sorties. When an Air Force C-141 dropped 1,300 gal. of fuel oil and a team of paracommandos on Arizona's Tuba City (pop. 2,000), schoolchildren braved 10°-below-zero temperatures-to get the parachutists...
Harvard knows pretty well what Canadians can do on the ice from its experience against Cornell, B.U., Clarkson, and now R.P.I.; but tonight the Crimson basketball team will see what they can do on the hardwoods. To uncover north-of-the-border basketball. Harvard will be the visiting foreigner in the Bluenose Classic at Halifax, Nova Scotia...
With such paltry exports as palm-tree products and castor oil, Dahomey cannot pay for the large quantities of French meats, wines, cheeses and "Gervais" ice cream that are normally among the prized imports of Dahomey's elite. Nor can its poor people, who live mostly in thatched huts or in bamboo huts set on stilts in muddy lagoons, afford the $3,000,000 presidential palace that its rulers have built, or the four-lane, sodium-lit boulevard that runs along Cotonou's seaside edge into an empty field of sand and weeds...
...sheets and hot water. "I took four showers the first day," says SP4 Ethen Woodward, a mortarman with the 1st Infantry Division. "I hadn't had a hot shower in ten months." Some first seek out the local R & R center and gorge on fresh milk, hamburgers and ice cream. Next objective is usually, in the words of a 173rd Airborne trooper, "a girl." But, he added carefully, "I'm also very interested in the cultural bit. I figure I may only be coming this way once." And because they may never come this way again, large numbers...
Jack Turco's third line was still on the ice when the opening barrage ended a minute and a half later. Cornell's John Hughes took a pass from Harvard's Barry Johnson and passed to Steve Giuliani for a ten-foot backhander...