Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Valley Water, which we've been delivering to Kelso through his five "horse of the year" campaigns and right to this minute. Other thoroughbred drinkers include Bold Ruler, Sword Dancer, Nashua, Round Table, Gallant Man, and, going back, Gallant Fox, Bimelech, Challedon, Bubbling Over, Black Toney, Johnstown and Omaha. Kelso has consumed more Mountain Valley than any other living being...
...toughness comes naturally. Gibson's father died a month before he was born, and as a tot, recalls his mother. Bob had rickets, hay fever, pneumonia and a rheumatic heart. Childhood ailments did not keep him from becoming a two-letter man (baseball and basketball) at Omaha's Creighton University. But when he tried touring with the Harlem Globetrotters, he had a series of asthma attacks and quit...
...That White Rapist." The man who lived as Malcolm X and died as John Doe was born Malcolm Little, in Omaha on May 19, 1925. His father was a Baptist preacher and an enthusiast for Black Nationalist Marcus Garvey's "Back to Africa" movement. The family moved to Lansing, Mich., where, Malcolm claimed, white racists set fire to his parents' home in 1929. Two years later, when Malcolm was six, his father was run over by a streetcar, his body cut almost in half. Police called it an accident, but Malcolm insisted that his father had been bludgeoned...
...models of the familiar Boeing 707 commercial airliner-that spell each other in eight-hour, all-weather shifts. No one plane lands until another has become airborne. Dubbed "Looking Glass," the plane is manned by a crew that flies a random pattern within radar distance of SAC's Omaha headquarters. The SAC general aboard, one of 50 who regularly pull Looking Glass duty, is the AEAO (for Airborne Emergency Actions Officer). He is in charge of a group of officers and technicians maintaining instant communications with Omaha, the White House, the Pentagon, and each of the 70 SAC bases...
...delivery force), the decision has been to discontinue further development of manned bombers, such as the controversial RS-70. Instead, enormous amounts of money are being spent to beef up the Minuteman batteries and nuclear submarine-launched missiles, among them Poseidon, which will double the megatonnage of Polaris. In Omaha, the Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff coordinates the targets at which missiles, landlocked and at sea, are aimed. Mostly they are pointed at critical bull's-eyes in Red China and Russia...