Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dead Putsches. The most amazing fact about the whole convention was that Jimmy Hoffa continued, despite everything, to exert his iron hold on the Teamsters. After all, Hoffa was convicted in 1964 for conspiracy and fraud in the handling of Teamster pension funds. That year he was also found guilty of attempting to suborn a jury in a 1962 trial in which he was accused of accepting a bribe from trucking operators. Hoffa was sentenced to 13 years in prison, remains free while the cases are under appeal.* He has been ostracized by the A.F.L.-C.I.O., been hit by Government...
...Iron Handle. The 36-ft. radar-guided Russian SAMs carried Ho Chi Minh's main thrust-and fizzled. Twenty-three SAMs were fired at U.S. planes last week, including a record 16 on a single day. All missed, thanks to a highly sophisticated defense-part electronic trickery, part "jinking" (violent evasive maneuvers)-used by U.S. pilots. When a mission goes in, radar-rigged C121 Constellations, called "the Big Eyes," orbit off the Tonkin coast, able to pick up a missile launch at the moment of ignition. The Big Eyes flash an instantaneous radio warning to the fighter-bomber pilots...
With each sortie, too, goes an "Iron Handle" of four suppressor planes-one a pathfinder able to finger SAM radar signals, the three others armed with rockets, notably the 10-ft. Shrike, which homes in on radar radiations. Last week Iron Handle flights hit ten SAM installations out of the total estimated 100 sites in North Viet Nam. Though the SAMs have had little direct success-bringing down 14 U.S. planes out of 296 launchings in the year since the first was fired -they do aid the enemy in another respect. Because SAMs are most effective at high altitudes, they...
Back Again. Hanoi sent two of its hottest planes, MIG-21s, after an Iron Handle flight of F-105 Thunderchiefs last week, and for only the second time in the air war, the MIGs cut loose with air-to-air missiles-two Russian ATOLLs, rockets similar to the U.S. heat-seeking Sidewinder. They fared no better than the SAMs: both missed, and the MIGs fled, despite their tactical superiority over the heavier F-105 in air combat...
...Sanders, Thomas and Nicklaus, all tied at one under par. Sanders and Thomas finished early, with scores of 283, and sat around the clubhouse waiting for slow, methodical Jack. Out on the battlefield, Nicklaus slammed a perfect drive down the middle of the 17th fairway, then hit a magnificent iron to the green within 15 feet of the cup. Barely missing the putt for an eagle three, he settled for a birdie on the par-five hole. That was it. A routine par on the 18th, and Jack finally had his British Open-by one stroke...