Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mongrelizing a single-engined plane, the "Stout Air Pullman." Only one of these bulbous-nosed trimotors was made flyable, and it was flown only once. Immediately after its hair-raising test flight, the pilot, Shorty Schroder, went to Ford and for several hours heatedly described its ungainliness and capricious lift characteristics. The next day Ford bought Stout's company...
Thai-based F-4C Phantoms and F-105 Thunderchiefs averaged 225 missions a week against North Vietnamese targets, which ranged from rail centers (50 strikes) and radar sites (110) to bridges (1,900) and barges (1,850). Helicopter rescue units, which lift downed U.S. airmen from the heart of North Viet Nam, fly out of Nakhon Phanom and two other bases...
...downhill. At Portillo last year, she was rated a cinch for a gold medal, after beating everybody in practice. Then, in the downhill, she slammed into a snow-packed retaining wall at 60 m.p.h., badly bruising her right arm. "She couldn't even lift her arm," recalls her coach, Verne Anderson, "but we couldn't keep her out of the giant slalom, so the doctor shot her full of Novocain, and I taped her ski pole to her glove." Nancy finished fourth, only 2.7 sec. behind Winner Marielle Goitschel...
Popular election of presidents would spur competition in one-party states. Undoubtedly it would lift the percentage of registered voters participating in presidential elections, since otherwise meaningless votes--for Democrats in Republican states and the other way around--would at last count for something...
...fuel, feed and arm the Allied fighting machine, some 6,000 tons of war materiel must be funneled daily through the port of Saigon. The labor is usually done by Vietnamese stevedores; the men of the U.S. Army's 4th Transportation Command seldom lift anything heavier than a clipboard as they direct the flow of goods. But last week the Saigon Dock Workers Union went out on strike. To keep things moving off the ships, 800 U.S. soldiers stepped in to do the heaving and toting ordinarily done by three times that many Vietnamese. From cannon barrels...