Word: jeep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most colorful scene was at the village of Mosquera, 13 miles from Bogota, where the Pope was set down by helicopter before 50,000 campesinos. Leaving his copter, Paul boarded a white Jeep and, for half an hour, drove through a multitude of awed faces. Present in the crowd were "typical" peasants from 21 Latin American coun tries, selected to attend the confrontation with the Pontiff. Bolivia sent the head of its National Peasants' Union...
...contraption's extraordinary capability lies in its configuration. Composed of two Jeep-like bodies hitched together by a flexible yoke, it can literally point in two directions at once. As a result, the four wheels on each segment remain firmly planted on the ground, even as the Twister crosses the crest of a small hill. The fore and aft sections are powered by two independent 140-h.p. air-cooled Corvair engines, modified so that they can operate even at a sharp tilt. The driver pilots the eight-wheel-drive vehicle from the rear body. He has at his disposal...
...reporter, Frank Palmos, 28, a freelance Australian journalist, escaped to tell the story. The group had been riding in a jeep around Saigon when they noticed a column of smoke rising above the Cholon section. Heading for the smoke, they soon found themselves moving through a stream of refugees fleeing the Viet Cong. Some tried to warn them with shouts of "V.C.! V.C.!", but they kept going until they arrived at an empty intersection-and then it was too late. Cantwell, who was driving, tried to put the jeep in reverse. Before he could, two Viet Cong opened fire. Palmos...
LAST week in Viet Nam, during a Communist attack on Saigon, TIME Correspondent John L. Cantwell, 30, was killed. Cantwell and four other journalists had taken a jeep and driven to Saigon's Chinese section of Cholon to investigate the extent of the attack when they were ambushed by Viet Cong soldiers. Though the journalists, who were dressed in civilian clothes, repeatedly cried out "Bao Chi! Bao Chi!" (reporter), the Viet Cong opened up on them with a burst of fire from their automatic weapons. They cut down all but one, an Australian freelance photographer who escaped by playing...
...Different." At Swarthmore College, which rejected four out of every five students who applied for admission, one of the 450 accepted was a youth with average grades who spent last summer driving a Jeep across the U.S. and sleeping in jails. "That takes maturity," comments Douglas Thompson, the school's assistant dean of admissions. "Swarthmore looks well beyond mere grades for qualities of uniqueness, which usually come across in interviews or in the essay that Swarthmore's application requires. We want a boy with something that tells us: 'Hello, I'm different...