Word: okinawa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Invisible and Inaudible. The B-52s wheel in from bases in Thailand, on Guam, Okinawa and Taiwan to dump their huge loads. They fly so high that they are virtually invisible, and their bombs detonate on the ground only seconds after the faint whine of their engines is audible-and by then it is too late. They concentrate on areas of Communist pressure-as last week in the Central Highlands near the Cambodian border, where waves of B-52s attempted to break down Communist troop buildups. For a pilot's view of a raid, Robert Wildau of TIME...
...first big break for the firm was the commission to build Oak Ridge, Tenn., the A-bomb town that was constructed in complete secrecy, eventually grew to a population of 75,000. In its wake came jobs to design a hotel, airbases in Morocco, and three towns in Okinawa. Having achieved a reputation for bigness, S.O.M. earned a name for high-quality design with Manhattan's Lever House. Lever has since been copied so often?and so badly?that it has lost much of its impact. But 16 years ago, it astonished and delighted...
...election also brought out Japan's considerable strain of pragmatism. Japanese voters have an abiding admiration for Ho Chi Minh's holdout against U.S. attack, but they can also understand why the U.S. cannot return Okinawa, with its B-52 landing bases, so long as the war continues-and the electorate decided not to make an issue of it. Sympathy with China, on the other hand, has declined rapidly as Japanese newsmen and businessmen have been harassed and imprisoned there; trade with China has declined 20% in the past two years. Even the popularity of the talent candidates...
...another, Bira Air Transport, provides air-taxi service in Thailand. The newest of what Six refers to as Continental's Pacific "spines" is Air Micronesia, whose planes will fly a route linking Hawaii with such well-known islands of World War II as Guam, Kwajalein, Saipan, Truk and Okinawa...
...joined the Marines and was shipped to Okinawa. "For the first 18 months, I was a machine gunner," he says. Then he shot a 66 in a tryout for his division's golf team-and spent the remaining 2½ years of his military career in special services, playing in tournaments in Japan, Formosa and the Philippines. Mustered out in 1961, he went back to his old driving-range job and supplemented his income by hustling suckers for bets at Dallas' Tenison Municipal Golf Course. His favorite trick was to play with an adhesive-wrapped soft drink bottle...