Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the aircraft landed at Andrews at dusk, the MATS terminal was blazing with floodlights. President and Mrs. Johnson waited inside while a yellow cargo lift lumbered out to the plane's rear door. Uniformed pallbearers struggled to shift the heavy casket from the plane to the lift. Robert Kennedy met Jackie at the door, helped her to the ground. Officials motioned Jackie toward a black Cadillac, but she insisted on staying with the casket. She got into a grey military ambulance, refused to sit in front, climbed in back near her husband's body. Bobby joined...
...line is suggested by Lawyer Haley, who also happens to be an ex-president of the American Rocket Society. Haley argues that a nation's airspace is best defined by the altitude (about 50 miles) at which the atmosphere becomes too thin to provide further aerodynamic lift to aircraft. Professor McDougal and friends demur. They prefer to leave the law flexible, to let it grow with a growing accumulation of cases...
...Navy is also upset by the seeming success of the massive "Operation Big Lift" that moved an Army division from the U.S. to Europe by air. Declares one top officer: "If they really think they can airlift a division into combat, or near combat, then the day of the Navy is over...
...biscuit bakers in Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, England and France. A notebook in his uncluttered desk holds his secret expansion plans for the company. All Bickmore will say is that within the next five years he intends to spread more products abroad, push sales close to $800 million, and lift profits 50% above last year's record $30 million. Helping out the cause, Bickmore loyally begins each day with a bowl of Nabisco Shredded Wheat...
Smashed Gangsters. All his early opponents underestimated him. An army commander, who boasted that he had only to lift a phone to stage a coup, soon found himself out of a job and out of the country. Playboy Emperor Bao Dai challenged Diem at the polls, and found his throne voted out of existence by 98% of the citizens. Diem smashed the gangsters who ran Saigon and routed the armies of the religious sects-with the help of the general who last week supplanted him. He also launched a comprehensive land reform program and, on a grass-roots tour...