Word: jeeping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Germans he has flushed from some bloody pocket of the war. Mauldin's caption, inspired by a news dispatch: "Fresh, spirited American troops, flushed with victory, are bringing in thousands of hungry, ragged, battle-weary prisoners." A cavalryman sadly administers the coup de grâce to a Jeep with a broken axle. Relaxed before battle, Willie angrily casts his eye on his buddy's unlovely countenance: "Why th' hell couldn't you have been born a beautiful woman...
...more than $1 billion more this year than last on new weapons and techniques for fighting limited wars. To give its 14 divisions more mobility and firepower, the Army will get large quantities of armored personnel carriers, 51-ton M-60 tanks, self-propelled artillery and a new super-jeep. The Army will have an increased tactical atomic punch, with assault missiles ranging from the 500-mile, solid-fuel Pershing down to the Davy Crockett, which can be carried by two G.I.s. The Marine Corps will increase in size from 175,000 to 190,000 men, get two new battalions...
...Chicago in 1958 to be consecrated by the late Cardinal Stritch as Titular Bishop of Margo and Prelate Nullius of Santarém. He recalls his return to the Amazon as a kind of replay of the triumphal procession in Aïda. "They put me into my old jeep, all decorated with white crepe paper and gave me a bouncing ride over every dirt street in town. All the local dignitaries gave talks, and since it was an election year, they turned them into political speeches. The choir sang like crazy, and I blessed everyone within spitting distance...
...stage an uprising among the Vietnamese. He quickly corralled the plotters, interrogated some of the 100 prisoners himself, declared that he had found documents linking them to Communist guerrillas in Laos. Last week, after Johnson left, Premier Sarit headed north in typical fashion for a good-will tour by Jeep through the villages, where he chatted with elders and inspected irrigation projects...
...second home of TIME Paris correspondent Edward Behr has been Algeria, which he has visited 45 times while logging a total of 14 months on the spot covering the Algerian war. He has patrolled with French paratroopers in the rugged Kabylia mountains, has crossed and recrossed the Sahara by Jeep, truck and light plane, turning up at times in spots so remote that they had never been seen before by anyone but nomads and the French camel corps. An Englishman who grew up in Paris speaking accentless French (he was a major in the British army during World...