Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...husband's inauguration. Mary Chamberlin Scranton, 44, whose husband Bill assumes office in Pennsylvania on Jan. 15, is an outgoing, athletic type. Last week at Elk Mountain, near Forest City, Pa., the Scrantons and their children went skiing. Mary and a friend, Lawrence Coughlin, took a chair lift to the summit, got stranded near the top. Down below, unaware of his wife's predicament, Bill Scranton began searching in vain. At length, Mary and Coughlin came skiing down to the lodge. They had been stopped cold in the chair lift about 25 ft. above the terrain...
...strike plan called for ten U.S. H21 troop-carrying helicopters, escorted by five U.S. rocket-firing HUA choppers, to ferry 400 government troops to the drop zone in waves of 100 men each. The first three groups landed with no ground fire from the enemy. But as the fourth lift fluttered over the paddies, the Communists let loose with a blaze of bullets from the woods at the edge of the rice field. "The tree line seemed to explode with machine-gun fire," said one helicopter pilot. "It was pure hell." Virtually motionless, the banana-shaped helicopters were helpless targets...
...Robert McNamara has not included any new funds for Skybolt in his next defense budget. Last week in London, he explained why to British Defense Minister Peter Thorneycroft. In five flight tests so far, Skybolt's first stage has three times either failed to ignite or properly to lift the bird; twice, the second stage failed to fire. McNamara stressed Skybolt's "enormous complexity,'' noted that Skybolt development is lagging a year behind schedule, argued that the U.S.'s silo-protected, fast-firing Minuteman ICBM has vastly diminished the need for Skybolt...
...that the U.S. was still way ahead in the aftermath of the Cuba crisis. But Georgia's Senator Richard Russell, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, best expressed the doubts that persisted in some minds. Said Russell in an Atlanta television interview: "We have temporized. We have even lifted the quarantine. Frankly, I thought that was a mistake. I didn't think we should lift the quarantine, or make any guarantees as to Cuba, until we have the right of on-site inspection throughout Cuba...
...Market. The Russian backdown over Cuba was a tonic to the market, and it was followed by a series of surprisingly strong economic indicators suggesting that a recession was not just around the corner, after all. Some Wall Streeters also count heavily on the extra lift that the economy should get from a tax cut next year. They also believe that the Administration's mounting deficits should set off the kind of inflation that boosts stock prices (because investors then move heavily into common stocks to protect their depreciating dollars...