Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Good Haul. The other U.S. pilots were picked up in equally daring operations. An Air Force helicopter based at Nakhon Phanom in northeast Thailand zipped over to Tchepone, a Laotian town overrun by Pathet Lao and Viet Minh regulars, picked up the pilot of a downed U.S. Thunderchief from the jungle. In a night operation inside North Viet Nam, another hovering helicopter used electronic strobe lights and flares to find a U.S. pilot in the jungle and rescue...
Wondrous Tales. So much for the Northeast Passage. In 1576, Captain Martin Frobisher set out to discover a Northwest Passage to Asia. His third voyage produced a remarkable description: "The storme still increased and the yce so invironed us, that we could see neither land nor sea, as farre as we could kenne: so that we were faine to ease the ships sides from the great and driry strokes of the yce: some with Capstan barres, some fending off with oares, some with plancks of two ynches thicke, which were broken immediatly with the force of the yce, some going...
...Hawaii's clear, cloud-free Mauna Kea (13,784 ft.), new telescopes sweep the skies from a site that Astronomer Gerard Kuiper terms "the finest in the world-I repeat, in the world." Five space-tracking stations in the islands now spot missiles and satellites. A hundred miles northeast of the island of Maui, a place where the ocean is three miles deep has been chosen for the $71 million Project Mohole-an attempt to drill three miles through the earth's crust to the underlying mantle. A recent business-sponsored survey projected a possible annual income...
...Year. As the Year of the Dragon went out and the Year of the Snake came in, the Viet Cong had unilaterally proclaimed a seven-day ceasefire. They spent that period busily caching explosives and setting up mortar positions near the central highlands town of Pleiku, 240 miles northeast of Saigon. As headquarters of South Viet Nam's II Army Corps and site of a U.S.-run airstrip at nearby Camp Holloway, Pleiku was a tempting target...
...seemed doubtful that elections could take place until the nation's northeast was rid of the barbarous rebels who continued to plague the government last week. A column of French-speaking mercenaries led by Major Siegfried Müller, an ex-Wehrmacht sergeant who wears a German Iron Cross, was neatly ambushed at Bafwasende by Simbas, who used an electrically detonated gasoline bomb in the middle of a jungle track. A third of the column's 40 vehicles was destroyed, three mercenaries and eight Congolese soldiers were killed, and the column remained pinned down for five days. Clearly...