Word: mats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DEFENSE. The President announced a reorganization of the Army's divisional structure, a beefing-up of its conventional strength, and asked for an added $100 million to purchase nonnuclear matériel from howitzers to helicopters. He said he had instructed Defense Secretary McNamara to set up a program that would enable ten reserve divisions to go into combat within eight weeks of the outbreak of war. Another $60 million was requested to recruit 14,000 new marines, increasing the strength of the corps...
...types used by the Allies in World War II as assault jetties at Normandy beachheads. Four tugs heaved at the seventh caisson, precisely long enough to fill the remaining 140-ft. gap, fighting the surging tide to keep it poised over its eventual resting place atop an asphalted nylon mat that anchors the shifting sands of the sea's bottom. Precisely at the moment of the tide's turn, when the water was completely still, 25 workmen aboard Caisson 7 frantically twirled at the watercocks. The waters rumbled into the hollow insides of the caisson, and after four...
...midst of the Frente buildup, the underground sabotage operations of the M.R.P. inside Cuba came almost to a halt for lack of matériel. In November, Manolo Ray sneaked out of Cuba to the U.S., hoping to win some support. Anxious to collect all anti-Castro organizations under one umbrella, the CIA offered to help M.R.P. on condition that it join Varona's Frente. The M.R.P. refused. The M.R.P. asked that arms be dropped to guerrillas in Escambray. The CIA, say the exiles, finally agreed, but on condition that the weapons be stamped with the Frente...
Ferhat Abbas was particularly impressed by Bourguiba's account of De Gaulle's position on the Sahara, which the F.L.N. fears France intends to keep. "It is not French sovereignty which is important," De Gaulle had said. "What mat ters is that France should have access to Saharan oil rather than pay for its oil in dollars." The joint communique of the three leaders contained the F.L.N. acceptance of De Gaulle...
Playing the genial host, the U.S. Senate last week laid out a huge welcome mat for foreign tourists anxious to visit the U.S. Passed by the Senate and sent to the House of Representatives for almost certain approval was a bill establishing a United States Travel Service, whose function will be to persuade more foreigners to visit the U.S. Provided with an initial budget of $5,000,000, the national tourist office will open branch offices abroad, work with private business to simplify tour arrangements and hotel accommodations, entice potential visitors with a "Tour the U.S.A." program...