Word: jeeping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the lack of any major policy agreements, both French and German diplomats were cheered by the relaxed tone of the meetings. Ministers discussed down-to-earth topics such as the joint construction of a military land vehicle to supplant the Jeep and ways to standardize tax and social security systems. Said one German official: "The Franco-German couple has given up the bedroom and now meets in the kitchen...
Snowed In & Snowed Out. It was not snowing in Viet Nam, so the State Department dispatched a four-wheel-drive Jeep to bring Dean Rusk in from his snowbound home in Maryland for the Sunday conferences that followed the U.S. decision to end the bombing pause. The Pentagon rolled out four-ton trucks for its top officials. One lower-grade officer had to stay on duty in the command center for 42 hours because his relief could not make his way in. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, after flying in from Minneapolis, found the 25-mile highway from outlying Dulles Airport...
Call for Paratroopers. What happened next? The rebels claim that 350 air force and army troops surrounded the hotel and began blasting away. The military insists that the rebels opened up first at a Jeep patrol. Either way, the soldiers were soon spraying the building with .50-cal. machine guns, then pounding it with 75-mm. shells from three tanks that rumbled over from the base. In the hotel, civilian bystanders cowered in hallways and closets, while rebel snipers in the top stories methodically cut down advancing air force troops...
...snapped combat pictures on a ridge at Iwo Jima while bullets sprayed around her. She cracked up in a Jeep under mortar fire in Cuba. She was threatened with hanging in a Communist prison in Hungary. She parachuted into Viet Cong territory and got back with the story and pictures she had gone after. But last week War Correspondent Dickey Chapelle's luck ran out. While covering a Marine operation near Chu Lai for the National Observer and radio station WOR, she stepped on a land mine and became the fourth war correspondent to be killed in Viet...
...camping, recreation and family hauling. To satisfy this market, Chevrolet has introduced the Chevelle El Camino, Ford has brought out a Ranchero on a Falcon chassis and a rugged, all-purpose Bronco roadster. Harvester is pushing its Scout, and Kaiser has a strong-selling civilian model of the Jeep...