Word: jeeping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Karl Knight Probst, 79, freelance consulting engineer who reportedly got $200 (his standard weekly fee) for turning out the boxy design for the bone-rattling, indestructible Jeep in seven days in 1940 after he was asked to build a sturdier vehicle than Germany's war-adapted Volkswagen; after a long illness; in Dayton...
...Sergeant (now replacing the aging Corporal), Lacrosse (for pinpoint blasting of pillboxes, bunkers, etc. less than 20 miles away), the 12-mile Honest John and the 10-mile Little John, the 1,200-yard Davy Crockett (smallest of all the nuclear weapons, it can be hauled about on a Jeep, is designed to blast such targets as tanks, gun emplacements, troop concentrations). The Navy has the 8-mile Asroc and the 11-mile Astor (both ship-launched torpedoes), the 65-mile Talos (a ship-launched, 1,850-m.p.h. antiaircraft and shore-bombardment weapon), the not-yet-operational 25-mile Subroc...
...Picture Window; The Insolent Chariots), might seem an improbable chronicler of this episode in wartime bravery. For many readers, his superslick style and self-confessed "literary license" ("Dona Carmen looked up at Fertig, the candlelight glinting in her dark hair") is about as fitting as chrome brightwork on a Jeep. Nonetheless, working with official records and with Fertig himself, who lives today in Colorado, Author Keats has produced a compelling and rewarding tale of endurance and character...
...gang), chides Tracy and gets clobbered with some one-armed karate. Another gang member, Lee Marvin, gets dispatched by a fire hose. And the leader, Robert Ryan, meets his fate when Tracy makes a Molotov cocktail from a bourbon bottle and the gasoline from a jeep...
...civilian clothes (including a coat bearing the label of a Seoul tailor), faked South Korean identity cards, rations for 15 days and $4,000 in U.S. money. Obviously, they had intended to infiltrate South Korea, but why had they jeopardized their mission by the ambush of the U.S. Jeep? Likeliest explanation: they thought they had been spotted by a U.S. patrol and had therefore opened fire...