Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DESTRUCTION. Down from its 1957 peak of 88 squadrons and 2,000 planes, ADC still has 59 squadrons, 1,400 fighters. Among the weapons they carry are infra-red Falcon missiles, heat-seeking Sidewinders, Genie air-to-air rockets, capable of toting nuclear warheads for demolishing enemy bomber formations. The fighters are linked to radar sites by the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment System (SAGE), which guides them straight to their targets, does everything but fire their weapons. ADC also mans six Bomarc surface-to-air missile squadrons in the northeastern U.S.; two Bomarc squadrons in Canada and hundreds of Army...
...frustrating than the threat of economic collapse. The more aid and troops the U.S. pours into South Viet Nam, the greater the danger of runaway inflation, an in visible enemy that could prove as disastrous to the country as military defeat. Last week, as the fighting reached a new peak (see THE NATION) and the economy neared its nadir, Washington dispatched its top economic trouble-shooter to Saigon: former World Bank Boss Eugene Black, now Lyndon Johnson's special envoy for Southeast Asian development. Black's mission is to expand and refine U.S. aid to South Viet...
...broadly,. Air, Force General René Barrientos, 46, the more equal of Bolivia's two co-Presidents, strapped himself into the pilot's seat and roared off into the blue. After buzzing over La Paz, Barrientos flitted for about 30 minutes around the jagged 21,325-ft. peak of nearby Mount Illimani, then pushed the shuddering plane to 21,425 ft., setting a new altitude mark for that type of aircraft...
...rich redskins always were installed there with sly but obsequious ceremony. Like most Western legends, this one is of dubious authenticity, but it is a fact that for close on to half a century, the sprawling Broadmoor, whose facilities meander over 5,000 acres just west of looming Pikes Peak, has attracted some millionaire Indians as well as a succession of U.S. Presidents, gold-plated Texans, royal personages of varying distinction, business tycoons, theatrical celebrities and battalions of generals and retired generals. Actually, though it maintains an agreeably old-fashioned air of opulence which approaches that of the best lodges...
...matter whether they are perched on some lofty peak in the Rockies or nestled beneath royal palms on a Florida lagoon, the most obvious thing about today's resorts, aside from the fact that they are proliferating wildly, is that they have changed. They have adjusted to a new time and a new social structure, and this is not necessarily because, as one old shellback snorted, "The '400' has been marked down...