Word: phantoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Navy's prize aircraft were on display: Phantom interceptors. Vigilante and Skyhawk attack bombers and Crusader fighters screamed overhead, booming in salute as they cracked the sonic barrier, hurling bombs neatly and precisely between the twin wakes of Enterprise and Forrestal...
...equipment-new rapid-fire M14 rifles and a field patrol device which detects raiders by radar. And there is increasing support near by-an on-call Marine battalion in Puerto Rico, a U.S. fleet now stationed regularly off Guantánamo Bay, and the carrier-based, swept-wing F4H Phantom II jet fighters whose sonic booms are clearly audible in Castroland...
...last week was busily mocking up a new two-man "Gemini" capsule that is slated for test flying by 1964. More important for the McDonnell balance sheet, President Kennedy recently requested $1 billion to equip the Air Force with the company's 1,600-m.p.h., all-weather Phantom II fighter-bombers, which can fly supersonically at altitudes from...
...savings and $135,000 in borrowed money and set up his own twelve-man shop at the St. Louis airport. After learning the ropes primarily as a subcontractor for bigger companies during World War II, McDonnell at war's end delivered the first carrier-based jet fighter -the Phantom I. Since then a $2 billion succession of Banshees, Demons and Voodoos has made McDonnell a perennial contender for the title of world's largest builder of jet fighters...
...model. So he painted the w?omen who paraded through his mind, even as his strength ebbed away from slow starvation. During World War II, living in Paris, he felt so weak that he could not hold a brush, and did not paint at all. "I lived like a phantom." he says. "I wasn't broken, though. I went on living in the work I had done earlier." He searched for handouts and scoured the gutters for cigarette butts. After the war. with the help of new patrons ("a few people for whom it wasn't a drama...