Word: jeeping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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September 2--For the last two days I've been in the village of N. We were lucky to get here at all--just as I got into A. Yesterday the jeep broke down. It took a day to fix. Today I gave a speech to the assembled population. I held up the start for 15 minutes insisting that the women come too, but in the end only a dozen showed up. Afterwards I made the tour of the village with the local sanitation committee, a collection of ragamuffin types. Tonight I did my dish-washing act before a small...
...study contract for a tiny, cigar-sized jet that would take advantage of the moon's light gravity (one-sixth that of the earth) to send an astronaut vaulting over crater and crag. Boeing and Bendix each have about $1,500,000 to design a lunar jeep, a snail-paced (5 m.p.h. to 10 m.p.h.), relatively light vehicle for short excursions during the early exploratory trips...
...wash their kids off with soap and water, half of the cases we're treating here today wouldn't be sick." A marine corporal near by listened and nodded. Next day five marines, four washtubs and a bag of towels pulled into Phu Bai in a Jeep, and an assembly line was soon set up. One by one the village's toddlers were dunked, scrubbed and rinsed (twice) and finally toweled off. By the time the job was done, the villagers had clearly concluded that it was the finest, funniest show ever staged...
During that trip, McNamara received from both South Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and the U.S. field commander, General William Westmoreland requests that the number of American troops in Viet Nam, now at about 75,000, be considerably increased. By jet, Jeep and helicopter, McNamara traveled the fighting fronts, talking with U.S. troops and getting on-the-scene briefings. He flew to the aircraft carrier Independence, patrolling 80 miles off the Vietnamese coast, watched jet bombers take off to attack North Viet...
...cover the story. He had no trouble. Naturally the most varied and militant types of transport were put to use by our Saigon Bureau staffers, all out on this week's coverage of Viet Nam. Their means of travel included jet, helicopter, truck, taxi, rented car, jeep, armored personnel carrier-and, of course, jungle boots...