Word: interceptor
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...Middle East heated up, Hussein began drafting all able-bodied Jordanians between 18 and 40, sent an urgent request to Washington to speed up delivery of 36 promised F-104 interceptor jets, and accepted help from the only Arab leader to come to his aid -Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, who offered to put 20,000 troops at Hussein's disposal. The United Nations last week got around to censuring Israel for the original attack, but that was small consolation for Hussein. Jordan's 350-mile border with Israel is just too long to screen, and more...
Draken fighters, a Mach-2.2 all-weather interceptor...
...research and development effort of the Air Force"-ten years before becoming its first chief in 1961. Under him, the command managed a wide assortment of complex programs and projects that ranged from aerospace medical research to combat and transport aircraft, from an automated ground guidance system for interceptor operations to military communications satellites. The Systems Command also worked out administrative techniques, now being widely copied by other Government agencies, for shepherding new technical projects from the planning stage to full-fledged operation...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The National A.A.U. Men's Outdoor Swimming and Diving championships at Lincoln, Neb., plus a repeat of the whiz-bang U.S. Air Force Fighter Interceptor Rocketry Meet at Tyndall Air Force Base...
...Force rates Lockheed's needle-nosed F-104 as its finest interceptor. But in West Germany, the Starfighter has won a different label: "the flying coffin...