Word: liftings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from where Colonel James K. Chenault was kidnaped last year. Ever since then, occasional threats have promised another kidnaping, and one afternoon last week Smolen was specifically fingered. To be on the safe side, Mission Chief Colonel Henry Choate, 47, came by the next morning to give him a lift to work. Even so, the kidnaping took only 20 seconds. As Smolen was walking to Choate's car at 8 a.m., a 1958 Chevrolet sedan raced up, and out popped two hoods. Leveling a submachine gun at Smolen, they hustled him into the Chevy. Colonel Choate started...
...last, the fog of traditionalism has begun to lift over London, and the artistic void has been filled by a platoon of young painters whose cool, bold work, while clearly influenced by U.S. pop art, is rooted in a distinctively English idiom that may well help Britannia rule a new wave. At the 1963 Paris Biennale, where French art bored even the French for a change, two of the young Londoners, Allen Jones and David Hockney, took the top prizes for painting and graphics from among 500 international entrants. Predicts Robertson: "The next great concentration of painters-after New York...
...using flaps that are twice normal size and by turning them almost 90° for takeoff or landing, the Charger gets what amounts to superlift. More lift is provided by the large (9 ft. in diameter) counterrotating propellers that force air back against the flaps...
...aluminum Hydroskimmer moves on a thin cushion of air; it gets its lift from the powerful blast of the four turbine-driven fans in the ship's hull. Once the skimmer is balanced on its air cushion, the two propellers in the stern roar into action. Starting from a spot 25 miles off the Erie beach, the Hydro-skimmer landed its marines in less than 30 minutes, traversed the last 600 yds. in less than 40 sec., minimizing exposure to potential enemy fire, maximizing the element of surprise. In addition, the marines were landed on the beach itself instead...
...months, his police have been jailing extremists all over the country, and his Acción Popular Party has expelled its former general secretary, Leftist Mario Villarán. Last April, when Peru's 10,000 Communist-controlled bank employees went on strike, Belaúnde threatened to lift their social security rights unless they went back to their jobs. They...